Old-Guard Republicans to Push Carbon Tax at White House Meeting
by Jennifer A Dlouhy
and Margaret Talev
February 7, 2017, 6:34 PM CST February 8, 2017, 10:19 AM CST
Former White House advisers, cabinet secretaries pressing tax
Trump’s economic adviser Gary Cohn among scheduled attendees
A group of prominent Republicans and business leaders backing a tax on carbon dioxide were taking their case Wednesday to top White House aides, including chief economic adviser Gary Cohn.
The group, including former Treasury Secretaries Hank Paulson and James Baker, is pressing President Donald Trump to tax carbon dioxide in exchange for abolishing a slew of environmental regulations. They unveiled their plan with a press conference in Washington and an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
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