Climate Leadership Council member, George P. Climate Leadership Council is calling for an American carbon tax, estimated at first to cost $40 a ton. So we are seeing bipartisan activity on climate change despite a lack of leadership at the highest level in the the White House." We also had 17 Republicans come out with a resolution this last month saying with climate change being an issue, we need to address it. statesmen and business leaders who comprise the Climate Leadership Council is making a case for carbon fee and dividend, "including Rob Walton, former chairman of the board of Walmart, who was part of a delegation which went to the White House in February to propose a carbon based solution, very similar to Citizens' Climate Lobby's market-based solution. We assess the value of carbon dioxide emissions per ton and then once we have a price let the market adjust how each individual business is going to adapt to this new cost that they have to internalize in their business models."Īrkansas Public Media Arkansas households could theoretically receive cold cash for carbon fee penalties paid out by carbon polluting industries in the state.Ī group of eight conservative U.S. "So what carbon fee and dividend, or carbon pricing policy is, is we put a price on CO2 emissions. Citizens' Climate Lobby says carbon pollution reduction fees ought to be doled out to American pocketbooks as household dividends. We want companies and industries to pay for putting carbon emissions into the atmosphere."įor example, a coal-fired electrical generating station will have to pay a carbon pollution fee, while stations outfitted with expensive carbon capture devices would not. "The way I like to explain it is you have to pay for your trash to be taken out.
Trump never did explain what he meant by "really clean coal," nor how his administration plans to reduce industrial carbon pollution, the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and linked to global warming.Ĭhris McNamara, state coordinator of Arkansas Citizens' Climate Lobby.īut Chris McNamara, Arkansas coordinator for Citizens Climate Lobby, a decentralized grassroots organization with 50 state chapters, says there is a conservative-friendly market-based solution to easing fossil fuel carbon emissions in the U.S.
Trump’s executive order also calls for lifting a moratorium on federal coal leasing and elimination of any social calculations or taxes attributed to carbon pollution.
As states began to deploy the plan however, a coalition of industry leaders and states' attorneys general, including Arkansas, sued to block implementation. Trump's executive order also seeks to end the Obama-era Clean Power Plan that allows each state to devise ways to gradually reduce industrial fossil fuel emissions. … And we're going to have safety, we're going to have clean water, we're going to have clear air." With today’s executive action, I am taking historic steps to lift the restrictions on American energy, to reverse government intrusion, and to cancel job-killing regulations. We're going to have clean coal, really clean coal. My administration is putting an end to the war on coal. "Today, I'm taking bold action to follow through on that promise. Speaking to a crowd of supporters, including industry executives and coal miners, Trump said his Energy Independence Executive Order fulfills a campaign promise for a "new energy revolution." Taking a stand inside Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, President Donald Trump on March 28th signed an executive order releasing the coal, oil and natural gas industries from pollution mitigation and thresholds set forth by the previous administration.
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