Citizen Lobbyists Advocate For Carbon Fee

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Citizen Climate Lobby is a grassroots environmental group working to influence congressional leaders to create a bipartisan policy to slow climate change.

WFHB Correspondent Sarah Vaughan spoke with two volunteer lobbyists from CCL’s local chapter, to learn about their efforts to pass legislation that would create a national carbon fee and dividend program.

House Resolution 763, the 2019 Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, is inching closer to gaining the 159 co-sponsors needed to pass out of the U.S. House of Representatives. Since this report, the number of co-sponsors has risen from 59 to 65.