Tagged with Carbon Tax 
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In or out
Climate policy question #1 is simple: “Are we in?” 4
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
There is a policy choice that calls the essential question -- a single decision that will signify a genuine commitment to reduce fossil fuel dependence and deliver climate solutions at scale, with real accountability for results: a firm, science-based cap on climate pollution.
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Myth: Unlike cap-and-trade, a carbon tax is simple, immune to manipulation, & politically palatable 44
Posted 7 months, 4 weeks ago
A strange-bedfellows political coalition, everyone from the CEO of Exxon to climate scientist James Hansen, supports a carbon tax as an alternative to cap-and-trade. Tax proponents allege that cap-and-trade is too complicated; too friendly to financial industry tricks and manipulations; too open to loopholes, cheating, and special pleading; too weak to work.
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Everybody cool it
Regional climate policy is still moving forward in the Northwest 0
Posted 8 months, 1 week agoOver the last couple of weeks, there's been a lot of hand-wringing about the state of climate policy in the Northwest. Washington's citizen-backed renewable energy standard is in jeopardy and neither Oregon nor Washington appears close to implementing the Western Climate Initiative. Even British Columbia's pioneering carbon tax is taking fire. Freak out! Everybody panic! Or not.
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Obama's cap-and-trade plan
If sticks don’t work, try carrots 0
Posted 8 months, 1 week agoFor an $80 billion program, President Barack Obama's cap-and-trade proposal is very short on specifics. His budget plan [PDF] provides only the briefest policy rationale for cap-and-trade, describing it as "a policy approach that dramatically reduced acid rain at much lower costs than the traditional government regulations and mandates of the past."
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Sound and fury
How would rebating carbon revenue to taxpayers give anyone incentive to reduce emissions? 0
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Stealing our semantics back
If it walks like a tax and quacks like a tax ... then it’s called cap-and-trade? 0
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks agoIf you got pissed off when the Bush administration stuck "Clear Skies" labels on their environmental programs, you should be no less fidgety when the phrase "cap-and-trade" is being comparably misused.
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WSJ: hacks and handout-seekers hate O’s climate plan 0
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Jim Rogers’ chutzpah, geothermal’s promise, Larson’s carbon tax, and efficiency’s returns 0
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Are emission targets ever really ‘science-based’? 0
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There’s No Time Like the Future
U.S. Senator: Recession wrong time for cap-and-trade 0
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Certain as Death and Carbon Taxes
Carbon tax only way to keep planet cool: Hansen 0
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Some perspective on tax-and-dividend and a better alternative 26
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Memo to tax sirens: Both a carbon cap and a tax can be implemented well 20
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Looking at climate change from a regional perspective 3
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Today’s leftovers 1
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Your choice vs. the ‘expert’ choice in video contest 1
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Carbon pricing needs to supplement, not undermine, other means of cutting emissions 6
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Why a cap without the trade is the worst of all worlds 8
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Magic exists: It’s called ‘cap-and-trade’ 12
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Yes, carbon taxes are more transparent than trade system 14
Posted 9 months, 4 weeks ago