Just before the spring recess, House Republicans celebrated the passage of H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act, before it likely gets tied up in the Democratic controlled Senate.
Democrats and Republicans in Congress are grappling over competing energy proposals
But one California Democrat is sounding the alarm, saying there is in fact nothing to celebrate with this energy package. The bill, which has yet to be introduced, will focus on speeding up permitting of clean energy projects. “Neither of these bills really accomplishes what the author's my thing would like to do, which is work to restore American energy independence, which we really haven't had since the early 60s, and then reduce our greenhouse gas emissions,” said Hirs.
“This is where we can actually accomplish an account for the cost of carbon really simply and very easily. We already have the infrastructure in place to collect taxes on production of fossil fuels,” explained Hirs. “Let that filter through the economy because foreign way, no one's going to change their behavior until it winds up showing up on the pump or the electricity meter.”
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