From WSJopinion: Progressives have said repeatedly they’d never agree to a bill that didn’t give them their climate demands, and they got rolled, writes KimStrassel. We’ll now see if they meant it.
In fact, the climate deal is a humiliating loss for both the president and congressional progressives—as further-left media organizations acknowledged over the past week. “The Centerpiece of Biden’s Climate Agenda Is All But Dead,” Mother Jones railed. “Progressive lawmakers seem resigned to losing their clean energy program,” Jacobin complained. “Biden’s Incredible Shrinking Climate Plan,” the New Republic groused.
They’ve labored for decades to get one. Sens. John McCain and Joe Lieberman introduced “cap and trade” climate legislation in 2003. A similar bill passed the House in 2009 . Democrats have since then introduced all manner of climate legislation, with provisions ranging from clean-energy standards to carbon pricing and taxes.
Some Democrats—including Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and several Texas representatives—said no to CEPP, and they meant it. Activists tried cajoling them with promises to make the program friendlier to coal-and gas-producing states, but they failed. Progressives then suggested a carbon tax. No dice. They turned to other enforcement replacements, including a border-adjustment tax , a methane fee, and a tax on industrial pollution.
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