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the tax, going so far as to request that the
Environment Committee suspend its rules
and remove it from a public hearing agenda
(which didn't happen) for fear that news of
the proposal could damage the state's reputa-
tion and worry business stakeholders inside
and outside of Connecticut.
"What I worry about is Connecticut's con-
tinued focus … on this issue at a time when
we're already the least competitive state with
regard to energy costs in the country," said
CBIA lobbyist Eric Brown. "I'm more wor-
ried about what signal this sends to the busi-
ness community in Connecticut, one that is
already strained."
Brown also said he doubts actions by Con-
necticut or several states alone will be enough
to address the planet's warming climate.
State Sen. Ted Kennedy Jr., (D-Branford)
co-chair of the Environment Committee, said
concerns about energy costs are legitimate,
but a carbon tax, which is gaining political
momentum, is worth discussing.
"This is not, I think, a [fringe] idea," Ken-
nedy said. "There may be some merits to this
and that's the reason for having a public hear-
ing today."
Kennedy noted that a group of Republi-
cans, including former Secretary of State
James Baker and former U.S. Treasury Sec-
retary Henry Paulson, recently called on the
Trump administration to pass a federal car-
bon tax. The so-called Climate Leadership
Council, which says a carbon tax is a mar-
ket-based solution to climate change, wants
a $40-per-ton tax, with taxpayer dividends
similar to those in Connecticut's proposal.
"It can unite Democrats and Republicans,
market-oriented people, and socially or com-
munity-oriented people," said Barrett, the
Massachusetts lawmaker. "It's an approach
that can fight climate change without creating
the normal divisions we see."
The Climate Leadership Council's timing
may seem peculiar, given that President Don-
ald Trump's Environmental Protection Agen-
cy Administrator Scott Pruitt has questioned
climate-change science and, as governor of
Oklahoma, sued the federal government over
Obama's carbon-reducing Clean Power Plan.
For some, the state bills reflect doubt that
the Trump administration will consider tax-
ing carbon. "The states are kind of where the
action is on a lot of these issues in my view,"
Kennedy said.
Congressman Larson said he doesn't
think there will be a rush of Republican sup-
port anytime soon for a federal carbon tax.
"[Republicans] are for the most part in
denial about climate change," Larson said. n
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