Koch, Er, Cato Institute New Climate Policy Guidlines Are . . . Cut/Paste Of Old Guidelines
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Not to worry though, Cato isn't just totally ignoring the environment in its massive guide for policymakers. It does have a section on environmental policy, in which they suggest Congress simply "repeal national air and water quality laws and regulations" and then "set a price on emissions or limits on the quantity of emissions and funnel the proceeds from the sales to those who are exposed to pollutants."
So instead of having regulations to limit pollution, Congress should simply let polluters make people sick, and then pay them for the privilege of choking on fumes. Which is not only a ghoulish sacrifice of human health to corporate profits, but also an obvious badfaith distraction, as it seems somewhat unlikely that Republicans are going to put a price on carbon (or any other) pollution!
Another indication of how serious Cato is about this policy? Save for three paragraphs of updates about the Trump administration's failures to make changes stick, the other sixteen paragraphs are, with the exception of a handful of copy edits, exactly the same as the 2017 policy brief . . . which also recommended putting a price on pollution, but was then followed by the chapter in which the first thing they say is that Congress shouldn't put a price on pollution!
And it's not like they even put much effort into that either, as it's basically a combination of tobacco-lawyer-turned-climate-denier Steve Milloy's ploy to use "transparency" as a shield to attack the science showing that soot (from smoking or burning coal) causes health problems. As we (and others) explained, demanding "transparency" of studies that were based on (anonymized) personal health data was a way to disqualify many epidemiological studies because releasing the patients' health data they are based on would violate health privacy laws.
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/5/2140104/-Cato-s-New-Guide-for-Policymakers-Shows-How-Conservatives-Have-No-Environmental-Policies