Outside views: Sen. Cassidy vs. the Washington Post on trade’s climate role

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) didn’t like what he read in a recent Washington Post editorial endorsing a tariff-based challenge to China’s slow walking of carbon-emission reductions, so he penned a response talking up his own proposal to attach fees to imports that have higher carbon intensity and defending Republican commitments to leverage trade policy for environmental gain. In a letter to the editor, Cassidy reacted to the editorial board’s call for the creation of a climate club , an idea...