CLC Bolsters Carbon Tax Push With Analysis Of Benefits For Industries

The Climate Leadership Council (CLC), a group that favors a carbon tax and is backed by major companies, is floating a new analysis to bolster that effort, touting the economic benefits of the plan for industries in a first-time comparison of the generally lower carbon profile of domestic industrial sectors relative to key trading partners. CLC’s Sept. 30 report , “America’s Carbon Advantage,” provides supporting data for the group’s call to combine a carbon tax with a border carbon adjustment...