Trump admin backs cruise industry bid to sink Hawaii climate tax
The Department of Justice called the tax a “scheme to extort American citizens and businesses”.
The Trump administration is bolstering the cruise industry’s fight against a passenger tax Hawaii plans to levy to offset the costs of climate change.
In a motion to intervene in the federal court case, the Department of Justice called the state’s “green fee” aimed at cruise ship operators and passengers a “scheme to extort American citizens and businesses.”
The first-in-the-nation fee “flies in the face of federal law twice over” — conflicting with the Tonnage Clause of the U.S. Constitution and the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1884, the government said in briefs filed last week with the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii.
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