An aggressive new bill aiming to impose a tax on emissions that drive climate change is “not political,” according to co-sponsor Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), but it “has everything to do with physics.”
The proposal is part of a two-bill package introduced Thursday by Sanders and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), who’ve scrapped the unpopular “cap and trade” scheme Boxer attempted to pass in 2008 in favor of a simpler system that would tax emissions and use the money to invest in renewable energy technology and hardened infrastructure, along with deficit reduction and rebates to American families who experience rising energy costs as a result.
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