By Jim Small | Arizona Mirror
Not content with bucking the Republican Party for its support of Donald Trump, U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake will introduce carbon tax legislation, The Hillreported Wedmesday.
Although there is broad consensus in the scientific community that climate change is real and presents a danger to the U.S., polling has long shown that Republican voters don’t believe human-caused climate change is a serious problem and that they oppose efforts to limit carbon emissions, including carbon taxes.
In 2016, the Republican Party wrote opposition to a carbon tax into its platform.
The Hill noted that Flake’s bill, which will be co-sponsored by Delaware Democrat Sen. Chris Coons, is a companion to bipartisan legislation introduced last month in the House of Representatives.
