Citizens Climate Lobby CCL

=see SCC=4 23 y mailhile he was in Congress, Florida Representative Francis Rooney distinguished himself as a leading Republican on climate change. Among other things, he was an original cosponsor of the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act when it was first introduced in 2018, and in 2019, he became the Republican co-chair of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus.His climate credentials and bipartisan approach make him the perfect keynote speaker for CCL's upcoming conference in Washington, D.C. (June 10-13), "The 2023 Climate Lobbying Reboot."Rooney’s support for climate solutions like carbon pricing is informed by the science. In <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" id="yiv6831787078ct3_0" target="blank" href="https://www2.citizensclimatelobby.org/acton/ct/17897/s-1660-2304/Bct/q-545d/l-sf-contact-0052:57897/ct3_0/1/lu?sid=TV2%3Ar3aGvKpfz" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none !important;">a past interview with CCL</a>, he said, “I’ve always felt it’s obvious that human activity has had an impact on climate, but I didn’t know as much about it until I studied it. Life is a journey of continuous learning.”That learning was motivated in no small part by representing his state's 19th Congressional District in southwest Florida, a place many would consider to be ground zero for climate change. Rising sea levels, increasingly severe storms and red tides are affecting people there, and Rooney wanted to do all he could to limit the impact on his constituents and beyond.“It is not enough to adapt to these changes locally and move forward without looking at the root causes and working toward a broader and more preventative solution," <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" id="yiv6831787078ct4_0" target="blank" href="https://www2.citizensclimatelobby.org/acton/ct/17897/s-1660-2304/Bct/q-545d/l-sf-contact-0052:57897/ct4_0/1/lu?sid=TV2%3Ar3aGvKpfz" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none !important;">Rooney said in an op-ed</a>.At our June conference, you will hear directly from this influential voice and you can help work toward climate solutions. We hope you’ll join us!=What are CBAMs? Tackling both the climate and economic fairness, the carbon border adjustment mechanism might just be one of the climate solutions with something for everyone. Read more about CBAMs on the CCL blog <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" id="yiv4074093986ct7_0" target="blank" href="https://www2.citizensclimatelobby.org/acton/ct/17897/s-1432-2209/Bct/l-sf-rpt-00O8X000008UI7j-4bea/l-sf-rpt-00O8X000008UI7j-4bea:24b7/ct7_0/1/lu?sid=TV2%3AvPS2rFgJ1" style="text-decoration-line: none;" open="Open" sans="Sans" arial="Arial" helvetica="Helvetica" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">here</a>.==<div><h2 class="post-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">s<a href="http://redgreenandblue.org/2022/11/27/sen-tina-smith-rep-paul-tonko-speak-citizens-climate-lobby-virtual-conference/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">en. Tina Smith, Rep. Paul Tonko to speak at Citizens’ Climate Lobby virtual conference</a></h2>Published on November 27th, 2022 | by <a href="http://redgreenandblue.org/author/citizensclimate/" title="Posts by Citizens' Climate Lobby" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Citizens' Climate Lobby</a><div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="http://redgreenandblue.org/2022/11/27/sen-tina-smith-rep-paul-tonko-speak-citizens-climate-lobby-virtual-conference/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The midterms have been pivotal in forecasting the political leanings of the next Congress, and Citizens’ Climate Lobby is poised to make a difference no matter who is in office. One way to make sure that you’re fully prepared for climate action going into the new year is to attend CCL’s free, virtual December conference! <div>=</div></div>=rgbno lnxCitizens’ Climate Lobby: Conservative climate event pushes for congressional action Published on March 17th, 2022TAGGED: CARBON FEE, CITIZENS CLIMATE LOBBY, CONGRESS, CONSERVATIVE, ECORIGHTAt the end of this month, conservative voters from across America will come to D.C. to build Republican support for a carbon price. This conservative climate leadership conference is hosted by Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) and will be attended by more than 60 people who identify on the political right.Citizens' Climate Lobby: Conservative climate event pushes for congressional action By Flannery WinchesterOn Tues., March 29, attendees will hear from CCL staff, business leaders, other organizations on the eco-right, and members of Congress. Invited speakers from the Hill include Rep. John Curtis (R-UT-03), Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC-01), Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), among others.“Today, we see Republicans in Congress getting engaged on the climate issue and bringing conservative solutions to the table. This event will show them that their voters are behind them and eager for them to do even more,” said Drew Eyerly, Conservative Outreach Director for CCL.On Wed., March 30, attendees will be split between two tracks to receive training in lobbying and climate communications. The two tracks are based on age, offering tailored content for climate advocates who are over age 40 and those who are under 40. According to an Ipsos/Newsy poll, 77 percent of young Republicans say climate change is a serious threat. Research shows that 75 percent of Republicans under 40 support a specific policy of putting a price on carbon pollution and giving regular dividends to households, which CCL is pushing for.“It’s especially important that representatives hear from younger conservatives, who we know are more than twice as likely to say this is an important issue to them, than older conservatives,” said Nate Abercrombie, CCL’s Conservative Outreach Coordinator in a recent interview.The advocates at this month’s event are yet another wave in the tide of grassroots advocates pushing Congress for climate action. Each June, more than a thousand volunteers of all political stripes attend CCL’s annual conference and hold hundreds of meetings with congressional offices.“Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a nonpartisan organization, and we believe that the best way to achieve strong, lasting climate legislation is with support across the political spectrum,” explained Madeleine Para, CCL’s Executive Director. “We’re grateful to these conservative volunteers for making their voices heard at this event. With every conversation, they’re showing elected Republicans that climate change should be a bridge issue that we all work together on.”Flannery Winchester has put her words to work for magazines, for marketing agencies, and now for our earth as the Communications Director for Citizens’ Climate Lobby . She is grateful to spend every day working to preserve this beautiful planet.rgb<h2 class="post-title" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" margin="margin" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgba="rgba">c<a href="https://redgreenandblue.org/2022/03/17/climate-reprieve-court-allows-biden-weigh-social-cost-carbon-policymaking/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">limate Reprieve: Court allows Biden to weigh the social cost of carbon in policymaking</a></h2><div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://redgreenandblue.org/2022/03/17/climate-reprieve-court-allows-biden-weigh-social-cost-carbon-policymaking/" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" background-color="background-color" rgba="rgba">Environmentalists applauded late Wednesday after a federal appeals court blocked a Trump-appointed judge’s order barring the Biden administration from considering the future costs of climate damage in its rulemaking and public projects. 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</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) is an environmentalist advocacy organization that pushes for legislation to curtail carbon emissions, with an emphasis on carbon taxes. It advances legislation to impose a carbon tax with redistribution to the populace.</div><div class="profile-main-content the-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 60px;">Founded on October 6, 2007, CCL created 560 chapters throughout the world, with chapters on every continent. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[1]</a>  Through presentations and meetings with Doug Harr of Audubon Iowa, CCL has pushed for increased advocacy support from the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/national-audubon-society/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">National Audubon Society</a> with 15 of its 450 chapters endorsing CCL-backed environmentalist legislation. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[2]</a>The organization endorses the Senate Climate Solutions Caucus (founded in 2019 by Senator <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Braun" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Michael Braun</a> (R-IN) and Senator <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Chris_Coons" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Chris Coons</a> (D-DE)) and House Climate Solutions Caucus (founded in 2016 by Rep. <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Ted_Deutch" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Ted Deutch</a> (D-FL) and now-former Rep. <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Carlos_Curbelo" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Carlos Curbelo</a> (R-FL)). <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[3]</a> While CCL touts its cross-partisanship, critics note that its employees have given extensively to Democratic candidates and committees and that CCL partners with more radical environmentalist groups like 350.org through the U.S. Climate Action Network. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[4]</a>CCL maintains a sister educational arm, <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-education-corp/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Citizens’ Climate Education</a> (CCE). <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[5]</a><div class="profile-toc" id="profile-toc" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding: 24px; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); max-width: 400px; min-width: 225px;"><h4 class="profile-tocheading" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 24px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px;">CONTENTS</h4><div class="profile-tocinner" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="first" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4em;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#background" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">Background</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4em;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#history" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">History</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4em;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#policy-advocacy" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">Policy Advocacy</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4em;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#canada" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">Canada</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4em;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#programs" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">Programs</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4em;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#leadership" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">Leadership</a></li><li class="last" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4em;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#funding" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">Funding</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4em;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#references" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">References</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4em;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#connected-people" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">Directors, Employees & Supporters</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4em;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#associated-orgs" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">Associated Organizations</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4em;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#donor-orgs" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">Donor Organizations</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#non-profit-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">Form 990 Information</a></li></ul></div></div><h2 id="background" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 40px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 7.5px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(202, 202, 202);">Background</h2>Citizens Climate Lobby is based in Coronado, California, and has over 50 staffers.<a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[6]</a> It works to promote a carbon tax scheme. Among the staffers include regional coordinators and lobbyists, among other positions.The centerpiece of CCL’s mission is promoting a carbon tax. Its approach is called a “carbon fee and dividend.” The proposal claims to collect a tax on carbon emissions and give 100% of the revenue back to citizens. The “dividend” would be distributed as income tax rebates.<a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-7" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[7]</a>According to its 2015 Form 990, it raised $309,135 and spent $164,670. CCL’s largest single expenditure was $144,099 to hold its annual conference in Washington, D.C.<h2 id="history" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 40px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 7.5px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(202, 202, 202);">History</h2>Citizens’ Climate Lobby’s founder and treasurer Marshall Saunders is a former real estate broker. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[8]</a> He claims to have begun his interest in environmental activism after seeing <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/person/al-gore/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Al Gore</a>’s environmentalist propaganda film An Inconvenient Truth and to have founded CCL after a series of workshops at a retirement home in 2006. The group began to lobby on the idea of carbon taxes (which it called “fees and tariffs”).CCL further lobbied for state governments’ powers to impose stricter motor vehicle emission standards than are federally required, as well as more stringent energy efficiency in building codes. Saunders later joined with longtime climate activist Tom Stokes. Stokes founded environmentalist group “Environment!” in 1969, and in 2013, became the founding director of Pricing Carbon Initiative. At the time he introduced Saunders to the idea of the carbon tax legislation which has become the prime target for CCL, he was working with Climate Crisis Coalition to make climate change concerns synonymous in the public mind with left-of-center social and economic policy positions. When asked if he saw a drawback to the imposition of a fee on carbon emissions, Saunders responded<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 12px 24px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(238, 238, 238);">No, I really do not. I do not think anybody does, except it is going to eventually put the carbon-producing companies out of business. If we can get a bill that causes that tax to go up by $10 every year, it is going to be uneconomic to bring coal, gas, and oil out of the ground. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[9]</a> <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[10]</a></blockquote>In 2009, CCL held its first annual conference in Washington, D.C. The conference brought together activists and advocates from all over the country and the world. CCL’s first international chapter was formed in 2011 in Canada.<h2 id="policy-advocacy" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 40px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 7.5px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(202, 202, 202);">Policy Advocacy</h2>CCL’s primary aim is the global implementation of carbon taxes as an indirect means to reduce emissions.  Along with 16 other Democratic members of Congress, Representative <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/John_Larson(Connecticut)" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">John Larson</a> (D-CT) introduced his first version of a carbon tax bill on November 1, 2017. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-11" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[11]</a> CCL endorsed this legislation, but criticized the fact that unlike CCL’s proposed “carbon fee and dividend” structure, not all of the revenue was not earmarked to be redistributed to the public. It also expressed concern that the act did not take enough into consideration the economic impact on low-income families. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[12]</a>CCL’s primary vehicle to impose carbon a tax in America is the “Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act” (H.R. 763), introduced by Rep. <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Ted_Deutch" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Ted Deutch</a> (D-FL). This legislation proposes a carbon tax on fossil fuels as well as a carbon tariff on imported goods. It claims to be “revenue neutral” as the proposed monies will be redistributed among the populace through a dividend, based on a price-per-individual basis. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-13" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[13]</a><h2 id="canada" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 40px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 7.5px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(202, 202, 202);">Canada</h2>During the push to implement a nationwide carbon tax in Canada, Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada Director Cathy Orlando boasted that CCL had “held more than 200 meetings, including 100 one-on-one meetings with members of Parliament… Our members also had over 700 editorials and letters to the editor published last year (2017) alone.” <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-14" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[14]</a> As of August 2019, CCL has more than 50 chapters throughout Canada. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-15" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[15]</a>CCL has called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal carbon pricing too lenient, and suggested an increase in carbon taxes beyond the year 2022, as well as further taxes on other gases such as methane, hydrofluorocarbons, and nitrous oxide. It also wants to end Canada’s subsidies to fossil industries that have been used to offset the imposition of the carbon taxes. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-16" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[16]</a><h2 id="programs" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 40px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 7.5px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(202, 202, 202);">Programs</h2>CCL pushes for its program through various means. The group organizes local chapters which work to build support for a carbon tax by writing letters to the editor and holding regional conferences. The chapters also occasionally travel to Washington to meet with members of Congress.<a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-17" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[17]</a>The group also publishes op-eds in major newspapers to support its views. It also provides tools on its website to contact members of Congress through their offices or on social media.CCL hosts an annual conference in Washington, D.C. where it brings together supporters with members of Congress and their staffs. It presents climate change information and put together workshops to help its members communicate their views better with the general public. It has developed economic studies in support of its climate tax proposal.It is a supporter of the cross-party Climate Solutions Caucus in Congress. But the caucus has come under fire from the left for not taking an extremist position against conventional energy use and the membership of Republicans who have not supported environmental-left legislation in the past. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-18" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[18]</a><h2 id="leadership" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 40px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 7.5px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(202, 202, 202);">Leadership</h2>CCL’s advisory board includes actors Don Cheadle and Bradley Whitford, RESULTS founder Sam Daley-Harris, former U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, far-left environmentalist climate scientist James Hansen, former U.S. Congressman Bob Inglis, and former Republican Cabinet Secretary and advisor to the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/niskanen-center/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Niskanen Center</a> <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/person/george-p-schultz/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">George P. Shultz</a>. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-19" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[19]</a>It also has a governing board with Ross Astoria as its chairman, George Hetzel as its secretary and treasurer, and organization founder Marshall Saunders. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-20" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[20]</a>Its staffers are donors to left-wing politicians. In the 2018 election cycle alone, CCL staffers have donated to the reelection campaigns of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley’s (D-OR), the Idaho and Kansas Democratic Parties, the Democratic PAC vendor <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/political-party/actblue-pac/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">ActBlue</a>, and other campaigns. They have not donated to any Republicans. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-21" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[21]</a><h2 id="funding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 40px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 7.5px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(202, 202, 202);">Funding</h2>Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit and is not required by the IRS to disclose its donors. Only one donor to CCL is known: the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/hopewell-fund/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Hopewell Fund</a>, which granted it $15,000 in 2017. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-22" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[22]</a> The Hopewell Fund is part of a major “dark money” nonprofit network managed by the Washington, DC-based consultancy <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/for-profit/arabella-advisors/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Arabella Advisors</a>.Between 2019 and 2020, the CCL received $600,000 in grant money from the left-leaning LLC <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/for-profit/arnold-ventures/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Arnold Ventures</a>. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-climate-lobby/#note-23" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[23]</a></div><div class="profile-section" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 60px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h4 class="content-box-subheading" id="references" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 30px; border-top: 4px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding-top: 10px; display: flex;"><div class="content-box-subheading__text" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-grow: 1;">References...</div></h4></div>=<a href="https://time.com/5613542/green-new-deal-carbon-tax/">https://time.com/5613542/green-new-deal-carbon-tax/</a><div class="author scale-12 padded margin-24-tb clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 24px auto; letter-spacing: 0.5px; padding-left: 56px; padding-right: 56px; max-width: none; min-width: 651px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="author-text" data-tracking-zone="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: 700;"><div class="timestamp published-date padding-12-left" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px; display: inline-block;">JULY 12, 2019</div></div></div><div id="article-body" class="article content body clearfix" data-tracking-zone="body" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 12px; max-width: 1120px;"><div class="padded" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 56px; padding-right: 56px; max-width: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; min-width: 651px;">How should we fight climate change? The most progressive Democrats say the answer is something like the Green New Deal, a massive government program aimed at reorienting American society. A more traditionally conservative answer is something like a carbon tax, making greenhouse gases more expensive and letting the market sort it out.But for some Democrats, either one — or even better, both — will do.A recent proposal for a carbon tax by Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch of Florida and supported by a group called Citizens’ Climate Lobby has attracted more than 50 co-sponsors, including nearly 30 House Democrats who also back the Green New Deal.“I’m for anything and everything that moves the ball forward,” says Democratic Rep. Salud Carbajal of California, who supports both the Green New Deal and a carbon tax. “What the carbon pricing legislation does is move forward the only significant bipartisan legislation that seems to be out there."the Deutch bill would require companies to pay $15 per ton of carbon dioxide they emit, a price that would rise by $10 each year after its been enacted and, according to supporters, reduce emissions by at least 40% in its first 12 years. The federal government would then distribute the revenue money back to American households in monthly payments, an approach known as a “carbon tax and dividend.”“It’s about as stringent as we’ve seen in terms of a federal carbon tax proposal,” says Noah Kaufman, a researcher at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.Supporters say such an approach could attract appeal across parties. For one thing, a carbon tax is actually a conservative idea and has support from many large corporations as well as economists and influential D.C. think tanks. And some Republican members of Congress have <a href="https://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/2019/06/05/stories/1060491139" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(233, 6, 6) 0px -2px 0px inset; padding: 1px 0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">hinted</a> they be willing to come around to the idea.Importantly, many supporters say the revenue generated by a carbon tax would create a significant lever to attract bipartisan support. Some of the money from a carbon pricing scheme could be used to help fund an industrial transition in communities with economies heavily dependent on fossil fuels. Or the money could help pay down the deficit. “There are lots of ways to spend — our estimate is $2.5 trillion over 10 years,” says Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, who plans to introduce his own carbon pricing legislation.Still, a carbon tax would face a significant uphill battle to become law under any president. The Senate is likely to remain in Republican hands in the near term, and even with a Democratic majority supporters would need to earn a significant number of GOP votes or rely on <a href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/5/28/18636759/climate-change-budget-reconciliation-democrats" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(233, 6, 6) 0px -2px 0px inset; padding: 1px 0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">legislative maneuvers</a> to pass the Senate.Carbon tax and Green New Deal supporters alike say they expect the political circumstances surrounding global warming to change in the coming years, opening a door that may not seem conceivable today. Recent polling has shown that the vast majority of Americans understand that climate change is happening and a majority of voters in both parties want the government to take action to address it.“The political debate in the world changes every single day,” says Democratic Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine, who backs both a carbon tax and the Green New Deal. “The majority of the American public is basically saying, hurry and do something about this.”Regardless of it chances of passing, members of Congress who support both a carbon tax and the Green New Deal are quick to point out that carbon pricing isn’t a silver bullet no matter what form it takes. Carbon pricing will do little to stop emissions in the transportation sector, which account for nearly a third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and some fear that consumers might end up spending whatever dividend they receive on higher energy costs.Nonetheless, carbon tax supporters say putting a price on carbon could serve as tool in the toolbox for to reach many of the aspirations of the Green New Deal. In the presidential race, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has embraced that approach. The long-shot contender who has built his entire campaign around climate change has released more than 100 pages of plans to tackle climate change, but he has devoted only a handful of sentences to what he calls a “climate pollution fee.” Others, like South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Maryland Rep. John Delaney have both embraced a carbon tax as a central piece of climate policy.Outside the presidential race, key supporters of the Green New Deal have struck a delicate balance discussing a carbon tax and other methods of carbon pricing. “Instead of simply saying we’re going to cap or put a price on carbon, the Green New Deal says, no, carbon pricing can be a small part of the sort of legislative package,” Sean McElwee of the progressive group Data for Progress told TIME earlier this year. “But we need to do more than that.”Perhaps the biggest reason why prominent voices on climate change have avoided talking about a carbon tax is a fear that voters simply don’t back the concept — at least not to the same degree that they support other policy ideas. Protests erupted in Paris last year when President Emmanuel Macron tried to impose a gas tax. And with Inslee as governor Washington state twice considered enacting a carbon tax, but voters rejected it on both occasions.“It’s clear they want a different suite of solutions other than that particular carbon tax,” he told TIME earlier this year.And Green New Deal supporters point to polling to back up prioritizing spending measures over a carbon tax. Recent <a href="http://filesforprogress.org/memos/wide_open_field.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(233, 6, 6) 0px -2px 0px inset; padding: 1px 0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">polling</a> from Data for Progress found that support among Democrats for “new public investment” to tackle climate change was 15 percentage points higher than support for a carbon tax (though both measures enjoyed majority support among Democrats).However the rhetoric plays out, supporters of the carbon tax bill say it is just a matter of time before the idea breaks through to the forefront of climate discussions again. Across the globe, from the United Nations’ climate science body to the leaders of the world’s biggest economies, carbon pricing is seen as a fundamental element of the fight against climate change.“Everyone’s goal is to work to reshape our economy so that we’re not reliant on carbon fuels and the pollution that comes with it,” says Deutch. Carbon pricing “will reemerge when we get down to the finer points of how we’re going to achieve everything that the presidential candidates are rightly talking.”</div></div><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19072018/anti-carbon-tax-resolution-house-vote-climate-solutions-caucus-curbelo-scalise-koch-influence-congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19072018/anti-carbon-tax-resolution-house-vote-climate-solutions-caucus-curbelo-scalise-koch-influence-congress</a><div class="content" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a resolution denouncing the idea of a U.S. carbon tax as detrimental to the economy, one week before a Republican-sponsored bill to create a carbon fee is set to be introduced.It was a win for a coalition of groups funded by the petrochemical billionaire Koch brothers and other wealthy, right-wing opponents of climate action. And it revealed weak resolve for bucking GOP leadership among most of the 43 Republican members of the <a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/climate-solutions-caucus/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Climate Solutions Caucus</a>.If the bipartisan caucus had held firm, the resolution would have been handily defeated.Instead, only six Republicans—four of them caucus members, including Rep. Carlos Curbelo of Florida, who plans to unveil the carbon fee measure next week—joined most Democrats in opposing the resolution. Seven Democrats voted with the GOP.The 229-180 vote marked a slight erosion in the GOP wall of opposition to climate action. In 2016, an identical measure passed the House <a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2016/roll295.xml" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">237-163</a>with no Republicans opposed. Such resolutions are meant to express the views of the chamber and have no real-world impact, but with a different Congress in place now, carbon tax foes wanted a new vote.  The American Energy Alliance (AEA), the Heartland Institute, and 18 other conservative advocacy groups had urged House Speaker Paul Ryan earlier this month to bring the resolution to the floor.AEA president Thomas Pyle said in an interview with InsideClimate News that the impetus was not the prospect of Curbelo's bill, but an effort to put members on the record before November. The groups put it this way in their <a href="https://www.americanenergyalliance.org/2018/07/09/conservative-coalition-rallies-to-warn-of-disastrous-economic-impact-of-carbon-tax%E2%80%8B/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">letter </a>to Ryan: "As we approach the 2018 midterm election, American voters need to know whether their elected representatives support the implementation of a new tax on the energy they rely on every single day."The House's affirmation of a fossil fuel-friendly agenda comes in a week when President Donald Trump's administration did the same on multiple fronts.The Environmental Protection Agency's new administrator, former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/epa-eases-rules-on-how-coal-ash-waste-is-stored-across-the-us/2018/07/17/740e4b9a-89d3-11e8-85ae-511bc1146b0b_story.html?utm_term=.98bcae2c16cc" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">finalized a plan</a> to ease requirements for handling the toxic coal ash from power plants—rules developed by the Obama administration after costly spills in Tennessee and North Carolina. The Treasury Department announced it would <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/us/politics/irs-will-no-longer-force-kochs-and-other-groups-to-disclose-donors.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">scrap requirements</a> that certain tax-exempt nonprofits disclose their donors, helping to cloak a key avenue for campaign contributions used by the Koch brothers and other wealthy political benefactors.<h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.333;">2 Views on How Climate Solutions Caucus Voted</h3>The House vote showed the flimsiness of the <a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/climate-solutions-caucus/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Climate Solutions Caucus</a>, the bipartisan coalition that Curbelo and others have sought to build behind the concept of a market-based solution for curbing greenhouse gas emissions.RL Miller, president of the advocacy group Climate Hawks Vote, said the caucus' credibility is in tatters after its GOP members, whom she has frequently criticized for their <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27022018/climate-solutions-caucus-congress-gop-voting-record-arctic-drilling-lcv-scores-election-challenge" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">weak environmental voting records</a>, failed to hold off a resolution that strikes at the heart of their purported purpose."It would be a joke were the subject not so serious. The caucus has no credibility, and no ability to do anything," Miller said. "The climate is changing far more quickly than Republican attitudes. That's why we do not hold faith in bipartisan solutions."But Steve Valk, spokesman for the Citizens Climate Lobby, a grassroots advocacy group that favors a carbon tax and that helped bring together the caucus, noted the non-binding resolution has no real effect. Valk said he did not expect that its members would go out on a limb against such a measure, especially since it was sponsored by House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), the No. 3 Republican in the chamber and a potential successor to Ryan, who is retiring."Anybody who votes against this resolution—it's going to be a mark against them in the eyes of the leadership, which decides what assignments you get, whether or not you're on the committee you want, and who's chair," Valk said. "There's a lot of calculations that go into a decision like this. We're willing to look at that and say, yeah, it's not a simple choice for them."In my mind, if you can get a handful of Republicans to vote no on this, that's a victory."<h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.333;">The Conversation Is Shifting: Republicans Consider Carbon Pricing</h3>Other carbon tax advocates expressed glass-half-full optimism, arguing the mere push for a vote by fossil fuel allies betrays their concern about the increasing support for the idea of putting a price on carbon to fight climate change."They feel that the momentum is shifting as the conversation commences, and they are trying to beat down any thoughtful analysis with a tribal drum that they are nervously beating louder," said former Rep. Bob Inglis, a Republican from South Carolina and founder of a conservative carbon tax advocacy group republicEn."If we were able to discuss this, we'd find that this is something that could bring conservatives and progressives together," he said.Conservative advocates for a carbon tax have been trying to make their case in Washington since the start of the Trump administration with little success. Trump's former chief economic advisor, Gary Cohn, reportedly earned the derisive nickname "<a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/carbon-tax-cohn-is-the-nickname-bannon-supporters-reportedly-have-for-key-white-house-official-2017-04-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Carbon Tax Cohn</a>" in the West Wing for giving a hearing to a revenue-neutral tax <a href="https://www.clcouncil.org/media/TheConservativeCaseforCarbonDividends.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">plan</a> proposed by prominent Republicans, including former Secretary of State James Baker and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.But since then, other groups have popped up. The nuclear-heavy energy company Exelon, the American Wind Energy Association and First Solar are funding a coalition called <a href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/6/22/17487488/carbon-tax-dividend-trent-lott-john-breaux" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Americans for Carbon Dividends</a>, which has hired former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, a Mississippi Republican, to lobby on the issue. Twenty-two college Republican groups came together earlier this year to form <a href="https://www.s4cd.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Students for Carbon Dividends</a>. Its founding president, Alex Posner, an American history major at Yale, says the plan they favor would address international competitiveness and jobs creation and would look nothing like the carbon tax described in the Scalise resolution. "We want to see a plan that's pro-growth and pro-environment while shrinking the size of government," he said.Pyle, of the American Energy Alliance, argues that no matter the design of a carbon tax program, consumers are worse off. "There's revenue generated, and then you haggle over how to spend it," he said. "It's no different than other taxes and fees. If you're giving back some to low-income households, it's a still a redistribution. And since poorer people pay a higher percentage of their incomes on energy, they are worse off."A series of <a href="http://energypolicy.columbia.edu/july-2018-carbon-tax-research-series?utm_source=Center+on+Global+Energy+Policy+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=18c5b8aafb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_17_11_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0773077aac-18c5b8aafb-62135029" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">four reports</a> released this week by Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy calls that argument into question, however, and provides ammunition for carbon tax advocates. The reports analyze various carbon tax legislation scenarios and conclude that they would increase government revenue by hundreds of billions of dollars a year and drive down U.S. emissions, far more than current policy, with minimal effects on the U.S. economy, families or businesses, or even on oil and gas production and consumption.<h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.333;">Curbelo: Resolution Presented 'a False Choice'</h3>For now, the House vote preemptively throws cold water on Curbelo's planned introduction next week of legislation that would impose an escalating tax on carbonemissions, while pausing federal regulations on climate change. Although Curbelo would not discuss details of his plan, reports said the revenue generated would be directed into infrastructure and in helping communities adapt to sea level rise and other impacts of climate change.Curbelo did not speak on the House floor during the one-hour debate allotted for the Scalise resolution. But when asked by InsideClimate News to comment, he criticized the measure in an emailed statement."The resolution presents a false choice," Curbelo said. "While I agree a carbon tax on its own would not be the best way forward and could have negative effects on the economy, there are smarter, more innovative solutions that would not only reduce carbon emissions and mitigate for the effects they have on our planet, but also grow the economy and provide opportunities for American workers and businesses at home and abroad."I look forward to engaging with my colleagues on this topic next week, and sharing my own proposal in the near future," he said.Curbelo, who represents the southern tip of Florida, one of the regions of the country most vulnerable to climate change impacts, is seen as one of the most vulnerable House Republicans. Cook Political Report and other political odds-makers call his race a <a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">toss-up</a>.With Democrats <a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/house/house-overview/house-ratings-changes-10-districts-move-mostly-democrats-direction" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">expected to gain</a> between 20 and 35 seats in November, and just 23 needed for them to retake the majority, Inglis argues that Scalise wasn't doing his own party any favors by forcing a carbon tax showdown. "Steve, what are you doing, running for minority leader?" asked Inglis. "He's putting people at risk for an idea that is clearly going to become very passé and very retro looking."<h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.333;">The House Debate</h3>During the House debate on the measure, Republicans urged a stand against carbon taxes while taking pains to assert that they were not denying the science of climate change."I'm not a climate denier. I'm not a science denier. I'm a climate thinker," said Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) "And real science isn't just about assessing costs only. It's about looking at benefits as well. ... Coal provides cheap, plentiful, reliable energy over the long term. We should not want the most carbon-free energy, but the best energy."Democrats used up much of their 30 minutes of time attempting to change the subject from the anti-carbon tax measure to spotlight Trump's controversial meeting this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.), managing the resolution for the GOP, repeatedly refused.A handful of Democrats, most of them members of the Climate Solutions Caucus, offered full-throated defense of carbon taxes."For decades, economists from across the ideological spectrum have argued that a carbon price is the most efficient way to discourage the use of fossil fuels and the best way to encourage energy efficiency measures and market decisions on everything from housing to transportation," said Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.). "The science continues to accumulate in prodigious amounts that the pollution is changing our Earth and the cost is staggering into the billions. Carbon pricing is the most market-oriented policy we can take to combat this."Rep. Earl Blumenauer, (D-Ore.) said the resolution "encapsulates what's wrong with the Republican management of this Congress. It is a cartoon that doesn't deal with the underlying issues," he said. "We could have a debate about real legislation that would satisfy their answers and be able to deal with what our responsibilities are to the future. ... Instead, we're dealing with empty gestures."In addition to Curbelo, Republicans voting against the resolution were Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mia Love of Utah—all members of the Climate Solutions Caucus—and Reps. Trey Hollingsworth of Indiana and Francis Rooney of Florida. The Democrats who joined the GOP in voting for the resolution were Reps. Sanford Bishop of Georgia; Henry Cuellar and Vincente González of Texas; Conor Lamb of Pennsylvania; Stephanie Murphy of Florida; and Tom O'Halleran and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. </div></div></div></div><div class="tagged-with" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><label style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; line-height: 1.2;">PUBLISHED UNDER:</label><div class="field field-name-field-topics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topics/regulation" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">REGULATION</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/climate-change" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">CLIMATE CHANGE</a></div></div></div></div>===</div>