Representatives from a coalition of veteran Republican officials — including five who have either served as treasury secretary or as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers — met Wednesday with White House officials to discuss the idea of imposing a national carbon tax, rather than using federal regulations, to address climate change.
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A group of Republican elder statesmen released a plan to fight climate change on Wednesday with a proposal to replace the Obama administration’s climate policies with a tax on carbon emissions. Led by former Secretaries of State James Baker III and George Schultz and former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, the Climate Leadership Council says their “Carbon...