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House Republican proposes using tax code to combat climate change

By Josh Siegel

Published January 8, 2020 5:00am ET

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House Republican proposes using tax code to combat climate change — In this June 4, 2013 file photo, Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., asks a question during a the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. The upstate New York congressman said he and his family were threatened after a dead animal and a brick bearing a family memberâs name were found at his home on Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. | (Charles Dharapak/AP)

Republican Rep. Tom Reed will unveil a bipartisan bill Wednesday to provide federal tax subsidies for “first-of-a-kind” clean energy technologies for combating climate change.

“We are putting our thumb on the scale to encourage energy innovation through the tax code,” Reed, a centrist from New York, told the Washington Examiner in an exclusive preview of his bill.

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