Connecticut Backs Off Climate-Change Carbon-Fee On Fuel, Leaving Massachusetts Lonelier

Connecticut Backs Off Climate-Change Carbon-Fee On Fuel, Leaving Massachusetts Lonelier

Connecticut's Democratic governor,Ned Lamont, no longer has an interest in joining the Transportation and Climate Initiative that would implement a fee on fuel in order to try to lessen climate change.

That means that Massachusetts and Rhode Island are now the only states committed to entering the regional fee scheme on gasoline and diesel along with the District of Columbia. The initiative was initially conceived as a multi-state agreement stretching from Maine to Virginia.