The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, except for Utah, which shall have one Senator and Massachusetts, which shall have three Senators...
E&E News (2/24/21) reports: "Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) signaled yesterday that he may support carbon pricing, potentially making him a key player as lawmakers look for ways to pass climate policy through a closely divided Senate. 'I'm very open to a carbon tax, carbon dividend, where there's a tax on oil companies and coal companies and so forth,' Romney said during a virtual event yesterday with The New York Times. 'And the funds that are raised then go to individual taxpayers so they can meet the costs of the higher price of energy.' Romney added that he is 'in agreement with what I'm hearing from Bill Gates, who's saying, "Look, don't play around the edges here.'"' 'He's suggesting a major investment at the federal level and in new technology — carbon capture, perhaps nuclear energy and so forth. Those ideas, I think, make sense to consider,' Romney said...Carbon taxes have long been a policy of choice among "eco-right" and corporate climate change advocates, but they have struggled to get Republicans behind the idea. Most GOP carbon tax supporters have retired or been voted out of office in recent years, and some influential conservative groups are vehemently opposed. The version of the policy Romney cited yesterday — a carbon tax with revenues returned to Americans via a dividend — is similar to an idea advocated by groups like Citizens' Climate Lobby and the Climate Leadership Council."
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"Rolling power outages are never a good thing. But we have been lucky in most cases to still have reliable energy available during difficult times. If the Biden plan is implemented, more of these reliable generators soon will be decommissioned and gone."
– Isaac Orr & Jason Hayes,
The Hill
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