Carbon Pricing

Should be called Jekyll-Hyde

Waxman-Markey bill would do more for climate without cap-and-trade provision 10
Posted 6 months ago
Thanks to downstream permitting, offsets, and permit giveaways, the Waxman-Markey bill is a net loss for the climate.
Permit giveaway lowers carbon price, increases volatility, reduces capital investment

Cap-and-trade permit giveaway hurt Waxman-Markey effectiveness 0
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
Look, over there, shiny!

Should the Republican carbon tax bill be taken seriously? 6
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
A couple of House Republicans have just introduced a climate tax bill. Should anyone pay it any attention?
Our carbon pricing system should not be a shotgun marriage

Why two climate bills are better than one 8
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Two different House committees are considering climate legislation -- and that's not a bad thing.
McDermott’s cap and trade alternative may have unintended consequences 3
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Washington's Congressman Jim McDermott just released a new climate plan, but I can't quite wrap my head around it. It gets some things right, but it may cause some relatively serious problems too.
Myth: Europe’s experience shows that cap-and-trade can’t work 1
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
It is now widely acknowledged that Europe's carbon trading program -- the ETS -- made several key mistakes in its initial trial period.
Eat the rich or beat the poor

The choice of what to do with carbon revenue is a clear-cut issue of justice 0
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago
The debate around various climate policies sounds complex, but there's a simple way to understand it: follow the money. When we put a price on carbon emissions, we place value on something that used to be worthless. That means all the sudden there's a big new pot of money. The most important question facing policymakers is: who gets that money?
One last foray into the economics discussion 17
Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Van Hollen to introduce cap-and-dividend bill 2
Posted 9 months ago
More evidence that burden sharing is the same up and down stream 2
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago