There’s a potential carbon trade war brewing between the United States
and the European Union. Earlier this year, the EU released a plan in
which the bloc would tax imports from countries that lack aggressive
carbon-reducing policies, including the United States. Now on Wednesday,
we learned more about how the United States plans to respond. POLITICO’s
Zack Colman explains.

 

Nirmal Mulaikal is a POLITICO audio host-producer. 

Zack Colman covers climate change for POLITICO. 

Raghu Manavalan is the host-producer of the Playbook Daily Briefing and
a senior editor for POLITICO audio.

Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO’s audio department.