The Grand Oil Party: House Republicans denounce a carbon tax | Dana Nuccitelli
by Dana Nuccitelli from Environment | The Guardian on (#1H0VH)
Lobbying from the petroleum industry may have convinced Republicans to denounce a carbon tax
On Friday, the US House of Representatives voted on a Resolution condemning a carbon tax. As The Hill reported:
Lawmakers passed, by a 237-163 vote, a GOP-backed resolution listing pitfalls from a tax on carbon dioxide emissions and concluding that such a policy "would be detrimental to American families and businesses, and is not in the best interest of the United States."
Six Democrats voted with the GOP for the resolution. No Republicans dissented.
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