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Can Oregon Democrats learn from B.C.’s carbon tax?

by Erik Neumann
| May 14, 2021 12:03 AM

In 2019 and again in 2020, Oregon Republicans walked out of the state Legislature to prevent a vote on cap-and-trade climate bills. The legislation was meant to drive down the state’s carbon emissions, but Republicans feared the bills would place the greatest burden of higher fuel prices on sparsely populated rural communities.

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