Climate Week En Review, August 9, 2019

Everything feels heavy this week. Hug your loved ones. Spend time outside. Take time for you. ??Keep the faith. This week’s must read: EcoRight ally Josiah Neely from R Street brought us this opinion essay, Republican carbon tax bills keep getting better....

VIDEO: The Rooney carbon tax bill

In late July, Republican Rep. Francis Rooney of Florida introduced his much anticipated carbon tax bill, the Stemming Warming and Augmenting Pay Act — or SWAP Act. What’s in the SWAP Act? Watch republicEn’s video explainer to learn all about it: The SWAP...

Starting your week off with a bang…

What a way to kick off an already hot week. First there was our Ohio-based spokesperson Tyler Gillette’s op-ed in the Columbus Dispatch. In his thought piece EcoRight leads conservatives’ call for U.S. action on climate, Tyler writes “as a millennial...

Climate Week En Review, August 2, 2019

Happy August! While this is typically a brutally hot and humid month in the DC area, we’re inching close to the best season, fall… when the leaves turn and kids go back to school and sweaters come out of hiding. Unless we screw it all up by not getting a...

Carbon tax’s triple header

We are in the luxurious position of having multiple carbon tax bills floating around Washington, DC, including two sponsored by Florida’s Rep. Francis Rooney, enough to make the EcoRight jump for joy. But how to distinguish between them? Especially given, in...

Graves changing face of GOP on climate

Louisiana Rep. Garret Graves, who after much wrangling with leadership earlier this year for “a better way to apply Republican principles” to climate change now serves as the top ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, was...