Liam Denning, Columnist

GOP Climate ‘Truths’ Are a Little Too Convenient

A coal-country senator’s argument against carbon taxes contradicts itself.

December 21, 2018 at 1:32 PM UTC

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY).
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Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming chairs the Environment and Public Works Committee and sits on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. This week, he wrote something on the subject of climate change, published in the New York Times.

Structured as “three truths” for the delegates to the recent United Nations climate talks in Poland, it quickly displays a certain artfulness: