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E&E News
23-05-2025
- Business
- E&E News
US carbon tariffs wouldn't cut global emissions, report says
Republican legislation that would impose a fee on imports of some products that generate high levels of greenhouse gas emissions during production would not cut global emissions overall, a new report said. The 'Foreign Pollution Fee Act' from Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) would impose tariffs on products such as iron, steel, aluminum, cement and glass based on their carbon intensity when made compared with U.S.-manufactured products. Carbon intensity measures emissions per unit of production and allows facilities to increase production without automatically facing a penalty. The legislation would likely increase U.S. production of the products, which would ratchet up the country's greenhouse gas emissions, said the report Wednesday by Resources for the Future think tank. Domestic production of cement would increase by more than 9 percent, aluminum would increase by roughly 8 percent, and iron and steel by more than 7 percent. Advertisement But countries that produce less carbon-intensive materials might sell more products to the U.S., which could offset emissions from additional domestic production, the report says.
E&E News
08-05-2025
- Automotive
- E&E News
Bipartisan push for carbon trade bill slows
Last year, a bipartisan bill to examine the carbon intensity of American manufacturing gained attention from lawmakers and environmental advocates across the political spectrum. The idea was to compare American products with those from high-polluting countries like China and to collect domestic data as Europe prepares to enact a tariff on carbon-intensive imports. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle think the U.S. should implement such a tariff too. But the bill has yet to resurface in the new Congress, and sponsors from years past say they have no imminent timeline to push the measure again. Advertisement The 'Providing Reliable, Objective, Verifiable Emissions Intensity and Transparency (PROVE IT) Act,' championed last Congress by Sens. Chris Coons (D-Del.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) and John Curtis (R-Utah), would commission a Department of Energy study comparing the greenhouse gas emissions of certain American manufacturing sectors with other countries.
