U.S. Senate Passes Bill Shielding Airlines from European Carbon Scheme
EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard says the the EU is not backing down from their Carbon Trading Tax Scheme
The United States Senate unanimously passed a bill preventing U.S. carriers from having to pay Europe’s Carbon Trading taxes.
The bill, which was passed Saturday, send a “strong message” to the European Union that they cannot impose taxes on the United States.
‘”The Senate’s action today will help ensure that U.S. air carriers and passengers will not be paying down European debt through this illegal tax and can instead be investing in creating jobs and stimulating our own economy,” Senator John Thune said in a statement.’
Most airlines have reluctantly complied with the EU law, but Chinese and Indian carriers missed an interim deadline to submit information required under it.
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Outstanding. Some small amount of my faith in the federal government has been restored just now.
Nice job US Senate. You could not have responded any better to such a ridiculous “tax” by the EU. If this fails maybe we should consider heavy tarriff’s on European goods imported into the US. That will help out their struggling economy (May even creat more jobs here in the states as oppose to purchasing foreign goods)
I never saw this coming…
Chris, I hoped for it. Several years ago I wrote a paper in college when the EU first kicked this scam around before it became law. I outlined how it was an agregious breach of national sovereignty to unilaterally impose tax upon an airline for the portion of the flight flown in international airspace AND that airline’s home airspace. This, in my eyes, was the only proper response by the US to the EU ETS; a polite but resolute “bugger off, have a nice day.”