Liberals grow skeptical of carbon tax proposal

Published January 25, 2019 5:00am ET



Liberals are moving away from carbon taxes as the primary answer to combating climate change, leaving the policy with little support on either side of the political spectrum.

“Carbon pricing is not doing well politically,” Kevin Book, managing director for research at ClearView Energy, told the Washington Examiner. “The challenges from within the Republican Party are already insurmountable today, and the abandoning of pricing and market-based mechanisms on the Left are dooming its revival in the long term.”

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