Massachusetts Carbon Tax Bill Has 100-Plus Sponsors on Beacon Hill – All Democrats

A bill that would tax carbon dioxide emissions from oil, natural gas, and coal in Massachusetts has 107 co-sponsors in the 200-member state Legislature – all of them Democrats. HD.2370 calls for charging $20 per ton of carbon dioxide unit in the first year, then increasing the tax $5 per ton every year until it reaches $40 per ton in the fifth year, with further increases slated if the state's secretary of energy and environmental affairs determines that "actual emissions have exceeded the annu

A bill that would tax carbon dioxide emissions from oil, natural gas, and coal in Massachusetts has 107 co-sponsors in the 200-member state Legislature – all of them Democrats. HD.2370 calls for charging $20 per ton of carbon dioxide unit in the first year, then increasing the tax $5 per ton every year until it reaches $40 per ton in the fifth year, with further increases slated if the state's secretary of energy and environmental affairs determines that "actual emissions have exceeded the annu…