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 Stories About: carbon tax AND carbon trading AND climate AND climate change mitigation AND Congress AND legislation AND politics
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Carbon tax news
Could the unthinkable become thinked? |
David Roberts |
07 May 2007 |
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| Over on MyDD, Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) discusses the carbon tax bill he recently introduced. My legislation, the Save Our Climate Act (H.R. 2069), would tax coal, petroleum and natural gas at a rate of $10 per ton of carbon content. Applied when these fossil fuels are initially removed from the ground, the tax would increase by $10 each year, freezing when a mandated report by the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Energy determines that carbon d ... |
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| Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, Congress, legislation, politics (all these topics) |
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