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Republican US Senator Cassidy proposes 'foreign pollution fee' to stem climate change
He's been talking about it for months, but looks like he's going to actually introduce it. An embedded-emissions tariff like this was proposed during early draft outlines of Build Back Better, but didn't survive negotiation. I'll note that his idea of 'more methane gas instead of coal' is something which might have been a reasonable intermediate step 30 years ago. It's not now, in a world where wind and solar are the cheap option.
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Biden faces calls to declare climate emergency as he heads to Maui
He's reportedly [staying at the home of Tom Steyer](https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1819239/bidens-staying-at-lake-tahoe-home-of-climate-activist-tom-steyer), one of the few super-rich to engage in public political climate activism.
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