#CCL2022 closes out with @SenWhitehouse acknowledging the work of CCL:
"No group in the environmental community has been more determined to get the emissions down...It is not enough to do what is politically possible. It is mandatory to do what nature demands."
"No group in the environmental community has been more determined to get the emissions down...It is not enough to do what is politically possible. It is mandatory to do what nature demands."
"Reconciliation is still alive. It turns into a pumpkin on Sept. 30... The practical expiring date is whenever we leave for August recess. So that's not a whole lot of time, but that's our shot."
"If you know politics, there's a saying: 'Nothing is decided until everything is decided.' But there are things along the way that are decided enough that you set them on the shelf. In my view, the methane program is now on the shelf."
"[The carbon border adjustment] creates economic conditions that drive less efficient countries that have to catch up with us. If they want to participate in the American marketplace, the biggest in the world, if they want to come play in our pool, they gotta clean up their act."
"We would not be in this position if you had not gotten on the phones and gone door to door and come to Washington and called and emailed and done all the work that you did to put life and energy into carbon pricing and carbon border adjustment."
"We are not there yet, but it is within reach. And the reason it is within reach is because of the work you have done. So go out there with real confidence and joy about what you've accomplished already to get us to this point. And now let's close the damn deal and get it done!"
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