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Message From: Sent: To: Subject: Myron Ebell [Myron.Ebell@cei.org] 7/20/2018 5:51:52 PM Myron Ebell [Myron.Ebell@cei.org] Cooler Heads Coalition carbon tax bills alert The Cooler Heads Coalition will not meet in August. Our next meeting will be on Monday, 10th September, beginning at 12 noon at CEI, 1310 L Street, N. W., Seventh Floor. Items: Curbelo carbon tax bill introduction next week and two events on Monday, 23rdJuly. House vote on Scalise anti-carbon tax resolution. Curbelo Carbon Tax Bill Two events on Monday--Pro and Con: Pro: Representative Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) will introduce his carbon tax bill early next week. Curbelo will speak at a press conference 9 to 10:15 AM on Monday at the National Press Club sponsored by the faux-libertarian Niskanen Center and the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia U. You may register to attend here: http://energvpoIicv,colitmbtaedu/eventscalendar/eongressman-curbelo-and-carbon-tax-policy. Or you can watch it live on the web here: http://energypolicv.Columbia.edu/1 ivestream. I have pasted the details below. Con: Americans for Tax Reform is holding a press conference at 11 AM also at the National Press Club. I haven't seen the list of speakers, but I expect Grover Norquist will be there, and I know my colleague Mario Lewis is on the list. To Rsvp or for more details, please e-mail John Kartch at ikartchi@atr.org. I have pasted ATR's alert on the Curbelo bill below. Americans for Tax Reform: Details of the Job-Crushing Curbelo Carbon Tax Bill Posted by ATR on Friday, July 20th, 2018, 10:29 AM PERMALINK On Monday July 23 Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) will introduce a bill to impose a massive carbon tax on his constituents and the American people. Details: Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 5 ED 002061 00058629-00001 Imposes a massive tax directly on American manufacturers. Bill excerpt: "The point o f taxation shall be for products manufactured in the United States, the manufacturingfacility. " Gives unfettered power to the EPA chief to impose carbon taxes. The bill makes a long list of industries subject to the carbon tax, and then lets the EPA boss add to that list at will. Bill excerpt: The EPA Administrator may "add any product to this list by ride. " Encourages states to impose carbon taxes on top of the federal carbon tax. Americans will end up paying federal AND state carbon taxes. Abusive penalties for non-payment of carbon taxes. The penalty amount is "equal to 3 times the applicable amount". Bill excerpt: Americans "shall be liablefor payment to the Secretary, without demand, o f a penalty equal to 3 times the applicable amount specified by those sectionsfor the same tax year as the year in which the personfailed to comply with such requirements. " Authorizes a UN-style "National Climate Commission." Authorizes said "National Climate Commission" to shovel taxpayer money to "consultants". The left wing activists who authored the bill wrote themselves in as beneficiaries. Bill excerpt: "The Commission is authorized toprocure the services o f experts and consultants ". "This is a direct attack on American manufacturing and competitiveness," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. "It also sets up an earmark for left wing activists who would be paid as `consultants' with taxpayer money." Columbia-Niskanen press conference at the National Press Club at 9 AM Monday On behalf of Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy and the Niskanen Center, please join us for an event with Congressman Carlos Curbelo (FL-26) to discuss the Market Choice Act, legislation he will introduce that day. After a 1-1 conversation between Congressman Curbelo and Jason Bordoff, Founding Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy, we will move to a panel conversation on the energy, economic and emissions effects of the Congressman's proposal and carbon pricing more broadly. Our distinguished panelists will include: Noah Kaufman, Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy Nat Keohane, Senior Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund Lynn Scarlet, Co Chief External Affairs Officer, The Nature Conservancy Jessica Hogle, Senior Director, Federal Affairs, PG&E Corporation Moderator: Joseph Majkut, Director of Climate Policy, Niskanen Center Read our analysis of the Congressman's legislation here: IL C oil Res, 119 Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 5 ED 002061 00058629-00002 The House passed the Scalise anti-carbon tax resolution on Thursday by a 229 to 180 vote. Six Republicans voted against the resolution and seven Democrats voted for it. We'll see who gets re-elected. Republicans voting no: Curbelo (Fla.), Fitzpatrick (Penna.), Hollingsworth (Ind.), Love (Ut), Rooney (Fla.), Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.). Democrats voting yes: Bishop (Ga.), Cuellar (Tex.), Lamb (Penna.), Gonzalez (Tex.), Murphy (Fla.), O'Halleran (Az.), Sinema (Az.). Two Members voting present: Costello (R-Penna.) and Lujan Grisham (D-NM). Seventeen members did not vote. Republicans: Bergman (Mich.), Black (Tenn.), Garrett (Va.), Granger (Tex.), Jones (NC), Royce (Calif.). Democrats: Brady (Penna.), Cardenas (Calif.), Crowley (NY), Ellison (Minn.), Fudge (Ohio), Hanabusa (Hi.), Lawson (Fla.), Peterson (Minn.), Richmond (La.), Speier (Calif.), Walz (Minn.). Myron Ebell Director, Center for Energy and Environment Competitive Enterprise Institute 1310 L Street, N. W., Seventh Floor Washington, DC 20005, USA Ex. 6 Tel direct: Tel mobile E-mail: Myron.Elbeiifrdcel.org Stop continental drift! Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 5 ED 002061 00058629-00003