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Americans for Carbon Dividends

@AFCDividends

A national education and advocacy campaign that promotes a bipartisan climate solution where all sides win.

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In different arenas, momentum continues to build for a market-based solution to lower carbon emissions.
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The U.S. steel industry has a significant carbon advantage over its foreign competitors. We can leverage that advantage to increase the profitability of the domestic steel industry.
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From business leaders to environmentalists to economists, the coalition that supports is broad and impressive. Learn more:
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'The PROVE IT Act offers a unique opportunity to put both Florida and America first on the path to a sustainable future,' writes Mary Anna Mancuso in The Invading Sea.
Here's how: theinvadingsea.com/2024/02/22/pro…

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From an op-ed in the Greenfield Recorder: Carbon import fees 'would level the playing field by charging dirty importers for the difference between their high-emission products and our cleaner domestic goods — and incentivize other countries to do better.'
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Carbon import fees 'would level the playing field by charging dirty importers for the difference between their high-emission products and our cleaner domestic goods — and incentivize other countries to do better.'
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Through the Carbon Dividends Plan, Americans will get cleaner air, enhanced national security, more innovation in the economy, and exciting new careers.

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Carbon dividends are the bipartisan solution we need to cut emissions in half by 2035, protect family budgets, and create good-paying clean energy and manufacturing jobs.

Carbon dividends are the bipartisan solution we need to cut emissions in half by 2035, protect family budgets, and create good-paying clean energy and manufacturing jobs.
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We could drastically reduce global carbon emissions by developing new technologies and holding major emitters accountable. A price on carbon paired with a border carbon adjustment is the way to make that happen.

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Carbon dividends are unique among climate policy approaches because they generate revenue that can be returned to citizens, investing all Americans in a clean energy future.

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The Carbon Dividends Plan would:

💸 Charge companies for their emissions
👨‍👩‍👦 Redistribute the revenues to the American people
🧾 Simply regulations
🛃 Charge a similar fee at the border, encouraging global climate action

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The National Energy Technology Laboratory’s analysis finds that U.S. LNG exports holds a carbon advantage over foreign alternatives. Promoting these exports can benefit U.S. businesses while reducing global emissions.

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A domestic carbon fee with a border carbon adjustment can grow the U.S. steel industry. U.S. steelmakers would see their sales & profitability rise as they displace imports from high-emitting countries.

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A domestic carbon fee with a border carbon adjustment can grow the U.S. steel industry. U.S. steelmakers would see their sales & profitability rise as they displace imports from high-emitting countries. buff.ly/2QSu8BR
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A border carbon adjustment would enable America to leverage our carbon advantage, 'benefitting U.S. producers and incentivizing China and other economies to finally cut their emissions,” writes Neil Chatterjee in Orrin G. Hatch Foundation’s 2023 Policy Review.

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U.S. industry endorses the bipartisan PROVE IT Act, with AISI’s Kevin Dempsey writing: “The PROVE IT Act will help demonstrate that policies in support of U.S. manufacturers are also policies that lower global emissions.”

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The PROVE IT Act would obtain high-quality data on the emissions intensity of domestically produced goods compared to those around the globe. We can leverage this data to hold countries with dirtier production accountable.

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