Democrats Might Give Up on a Methane Tax, and Maybe That’s Okay
Instead of mourning the loss, some climate experts are simply shrugging it off.
Yet another climate provision may be out of the Democrats’ signature spending bill. On Monday, The New York Times and Reuters reported that Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, one of two pivotal Democratic votes, wants to remove the bill’s tax on methane leaks from oil and gas operations. (A spokesperson for Senator Tom Carper, a Democrat from Delaware whose committee oversees that proposal, denied the reports on Twitter.)
Such a cut about 10 percent of its total emissions reductions, according to from researchers at Princeton. But at least so far, the reaction to its loss has not
