Minnesota Slaps North Dakota with World's First Carbon Tariff

From Treehugger:

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There's been a lot of talk about carbon tariffs--taxing imported goods from polluting industries in nations or states that don't regulate CO2--over the last year or so. Many rust belt and coal state Democrats have called for federal climate legislation to include a such a carbon tariff. This would impose a tax on goods imported to the US from nations with no carbon controls on manufacturing (say, China). So it might come as a surprise to some that the first carbon tariff actually enacted isn't between nations at all--it's between Minnesota and North Dakota.

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