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That is why I have worked on bipartisan bills that encourage better forest management by our federal agencies and power companies. And I’m proud to report that those policies will be coming online this summer.
But we need to get at the root cause of these disasters, too. That is why I have joined with a Republican colleague from West Virginia, Congressman David McKinley, on a plan to reduce our power plant emissions to near zero by 2050, regardless of their energy source. This is a commonsense way to bring our country together to reduce carbon emissions.
We are blessed in the Pacific Northwest with abundant clean hydropower and promising wave energy resources. We have also maintained a steadfast commitment to wind, solar, geothermal and biomass alternatives for clean renewable energy. That is not the case in many parts of the country, where livelihoods depend on fossil fuel energy sources.
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Recently in the U.S. House of Representatives the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act was re-introduced into the 117th Congress. The EI&CD Act (HR 2307) is not a tax but a fee to be placed on fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas, which account for harmful carbon emissions. The fee starts low and grows over time. As a “dividend” this fee will be allocated in equal shares every month to the American people to spend as they see fit. To protect U.S. manufacturers and jobs, imported fossil-fuel products will pay a border carbon adjustment, and goods exported from the U.S. will receive a refund of the carbon fee.
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April 19, 2021 - 3:56 pm
Senator Joe Manchin and United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts together endorsed legislation to strengthen labor unions, pushed for federal investments in carbon capture technology, advocated for using coal to make steel in the United States and called for building up coal-producing communities that have languished in recent years.
Cecil Roberts
“We’re very much interested in protecting existing coalfield jobs,” Roberts said. “I would say to our friends in government and high places that we’ve just about had all we can take of layoffs and people losing their jobs in the coalfields. It doesn’t have to be that way.”