GOP Mulling New Plan on Climate Change
March 27, 2019
Several leading Republicans in the US Senate, perhaps feeling pressure from Democrats for not having a plan to combat global warming, now say they are working on proposals that use market-based approaches to address climate change. Their emerging options seem to align with the fundamental yardstick presented in Issues by a conservative scholar that any climate-related policies “must be compatible with individual liberty and democratic institutions, and cannot rely on coercive or unaccountable bureaucratic administration.”