by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller Florida Rep. Carlos Curbelo, who supports a carbon tax, was among defeated House Republicans who are part of a caucus set up to push global warming policies. Curbelo conceded to Democratic candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell on Tuesday night. Conservatives say the defeat of Curbelo, who’s called a GOP “leader” on [...]
E&E Legal signed on to a letter coordinated by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) to Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy urging them to bring up a resolution that would severely hurt the U.S. economy. Nearly twenty other free-market organizations signed onto the letter. The letter begins: We write you today to respectfully [...]
E&E Legal signed on to a letter coordinated by American Energy Alliance (AEA) to Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy urging them to bring up a Sense of Congress resolution that states a carbon tax would be harmful to the U.S. economy. Nearly twenty other free-market organizations signed onto the letter. Read more.
A recent paper by Cullenward and Weiskopf of Stanford University’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program lends additional gravitas to an important message E&E Legal’s Tom Tanton has been pointing out for years: California's cap-and-trade program could end up causing larger net global emissions of greenhouse gasses than without the regulations. Cullenward and [...]
