Republicans Let ‘Carbon Tax Framework’ Slip Through Funding Bill, Opponents Warn

The Daily Caller cited CEI’s expert on the PROVE IT Act.

Language buried in a report accompanying the energy spending bill would require a study comparable to what was required under the PROVE IT Act,” Director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI) Center for Energy and Environment Daren Bakst told the DCNF. “The lawmakers that took such an action must have properly recognized that the only way to push their global climate agenda and undermine the Trump administration agenda is to sneak it into some report.”

Bakst noted that the Trump administration has worked to distance the U.S. from global climate initiatives it believes are contrary to America’s best interest and that it recently bucked against the United Nation’s global maritime carbon tax successfully.

“Yet there are apparently some lawmakers, including some Republicans, who don’t want to fight the European-led export of global climate regulation, they want to be a part of it,” Bakst told the DCNF. “They don’t want to fight Europe from taxing American companies through their sweeping new carbon border tax, which is broader than a shipping tax, they want to follow the lead of Europe and join their carbon club by helping to set the framework for our own carbon border tax.

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