CLEAR in the press

June 8, 2010
With the Gulf of Mexico oil spill reviving prospects for an energy debate in the Senate this summer, leading lawmakers are dusting off a bipartisan climate change proposal that could upstage the comprehensive bill recently unveiled by John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joseph I. Lieberman, I-Conn.

Listen to the interview at: http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=10-P13-00015&segmentID=3

April 5, 2010

OPPONENTS OF health-care reform like to point out that it will reshape one-sixth of the U.S. economy. But there's another big legislative push, overshadowed by health care, that would directly affect an even larger chunk: the effort to pass a climate-change bill.

Include a CLEAR-style refund

The most important addition that Senators Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman can make to the climate bill is a refund provision similar to the Cantwell-Collins proposal. Without some mechanism to compensate Americans for rising energy prices, middle and lower income families will be stuck with the tab for our transition to cleaner energy, which is both bad policy and bad politics.