Americas > Eroding fossil fuel lobby, appealing to millennials key to federal US carbon price -experts

Eroding fossil fuel lobby, appealing to millennials key to federal US carbon price -experts

Published 23:51 on August 29, 2018  /  Last updated at 01:00 on August 30, 2018  / Matthew Lithgow /  Americas, Carbon Taxes, US

Enacting a federal carbon pricing scheme in the US will need to the overcome the contradictory public relations and lobbying arms of oil companies in Washington DC in order to move forward, while Republicans need to run on climate issues to court a growing and concerned youth vote, experts and lawmakers said in a webinar on Wednesday.
Enacting a federal carbon pricing scheme in the US will need to the overcome the contradictory public relations and lobbying arms of oil companies in Washington DC in order to move forward, while Republicans need to run on climate issues to court a growing and concerned youth vote, experts and lawmakers said in a webinar on Wednesday.


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