Climate lawfare is raising our energy bills, slowing our economy |
The Trump administration is taking a well-earned victory lap after successfully delaying a carbon tax on the shipping and logistics industry at a United Nations meeting in London last month.
“The U.S. achieved a diplomatic victory and successfully rallied a coalition to stop the body’s proposed ‘net-zero framework,’” wrote Secretary of State Marco Rubio about the effort to delay by one year a proposal to implement new climate rules at the International Maritime Organization.
Our diplomats are right to celebrate Americans being shielded from new taxes on their energy consumption coming from abroad, but right here at home, new costs are being folded into household energy budgets every day. Anyone with a gas tank to fill or house to heat is feeling it.
For the last decade in local courts, municipalities and states have waged their own legal battles against American energy providers to extract massive settlements over their alleged failure to acknowledge culpability in global climate change.
Most of these lawsuits have been launched........