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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Revkin: Can tax-and-dividend break the political deadlock? Now that L-W is dead, Barnes' sky trust is looking good	Gar Lipow	07 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Revkin speculates that Barnes' proposal is a way to break the deadlock stopping climate change legislation. I think he may be right. Tax emissions. (Or cap them and auction permits.) Refund the revenue to everybody. It has the following political advantages: It is simple and easy to understand. It puts a price on emissions without really penalizing anybody. It is a no-hair-shirt solution. This last point is worth emphasizing. It does not punish consumers, be ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Ah, the 'Can't do' spirit Standing up to Samuelson	Joseph Romm	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This post is by Bracken Hendricks, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. ----- In Monday's Washington Post, and a parallel piece in Newsweek, Robert Samuelson gets it wildly wrong on cap-and-trade, parroting a litany of falsehoods and misrepresentations concerning the most probable federal policy for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. Like most detractors of action on global warming, Samuelson continues to push the unsubstantiated notion that reducing emi ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

CBO vs. ACSA = TKO The Congressional Budget Office savages the Lieberman-Warner approach to climate change pol	David Roberts	05 Nov 2007	Gristmill
America's Climate Security Act, the Senate climate bill offered by Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and John Warner (R-Va.), offers enormous giveaways to the nation's biggest polluters, in the form of billions of dollars worth of free pollution permits, which won't be zeroed out until 2036. Last Thursday, while the bill was passing through subcommittee, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office was testifying to the House Budget Committee on "Approaches to Reducing ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Doing carbon right What good carbon policy should -- but often doesn't -- reward	Sean Casten	21 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Too much of the debate on carbon-control policy starts from flawed assumptions. Take those assumptions away, and one quickly realizes that we have a lot of pretty good options. Let's parse the carbon policy argument, and think for a moment about how to best engender the most economically beneficial carbon reduction policy. First, let's strike any false assumptions from our logic: Let's not assume that it costs money to reduce carbon emissions until proven othe ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

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