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Headline	Author	Published	Section
ECO:nomics: Presidential energy advisors Campaign energy wonks clarify candidates' differences on climate change	David Roberts	15 Mar 2008	Gristmill
As Adam pointed out, it seems to have become conventional wisdom among media that the presidential candidates' positions on climate change are roughly identical. But the campaigns themselves don't see it that way. That became clear during a panel featuring the candidates' top energy advisors. Obama was represented by Jason Grumet, whose day job is running the Bipartisan Policy Center. The Clinton campaign sent Gene Sperling, senior fellow at both the Council of Fo ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Tax-and-rebate vs. auction-and-rebate The major differences between carbon pricing plans are political	Gar Lipow	19 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Putting a price on carbon is probably an unavoidable part of phasing out fossil fuels to fight global warming and air pollution. For years, Peter Barnes has advocated a brilliant means of mitigating many of the harmful economic side effects: take the revenue from carbon taxes or auctions and rebate it back to the people, dividing it equally among each citizen. Barnes advocates doing this via an auctioned permit system. However,the same thing could be done with a car ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, politics (all these topics)

The good and the bad Why cap-and-trade is preferable to a carbon tax	Clark Williams-Derry	06 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The Washington Post ran an interesting op-ed in its Think Tank Town section last week, arguing for a carbon tax. The nut graph: The only effective way to begin reducing greenhouse gas emissions and slow global climate change is to make it more expensive to emit carbon dioxide. Unless businesses and consumers pay a price for carbon dioxide, neither will make the investments in technology and changes in energy use needed to dramatically reduce emissions. ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, energy, politics (all these topics)

Carbon tax vs. cap-and-trade, part kajillion No carbon reduction program is a silver bullet	David Roberts	06 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Something about NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg's arguments for a carbon tax struck me as a little too glib, too pat. Barack Obama's energy advisor Madhuri Kommareddi does as good a job as anyone of explaining why, arguing that a cap-and-auction system beats a carbon tax on the merits: Why this system instead of carbon tax? What's important to note is that we're implementing a 100% auction of cap-and-trade credits. This has the same effect as carbon tax -- bec ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, politics (all these topics)

Donning his cap Dingell endorses a cap-and-trade climate plan	Brian Beutler	03 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Just days after releasing his carbon-and-gas tax proposal for public comment, House Energy and Commerce Chair John Dingell (D-Auto) -- along with Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Coal) of Virginia -- has released a report [PDF] endorsing an economy-wide cap-and-trade program. In an odd but welcome turn, the 22-page white paper reads:The United States should reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by between 60 and 80 percent by 2050 to contribute to efforts to address climate chan ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Quote of the day Dingell gets off a zinger in a testy interview	David Roberts	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
"I run a legislative committee. Mr. Markey runs around the world watching glaciers melt." -- Rep. John Dingell Ouch. That comes from a characteristically testy interview Dingell did with Newsweek. It's worth reading the whole thing. I don't know what his intent is with this carbon tax bill, but I will say that the tenor of his message on global warming is politically disastrous. It is, paraphrasing, this: "Global warming is a serious problem. Solving ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics, quotables (all these topics)

Capping carbon: Is nothing better than something? On whether to advocate weaker climate change bills	Joseph Romm	22 Sep 2007	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. How fearsome must the headlines be about tomorrow before people change their ways today? -- Nancy Gibbs, TIME In Greenland today, the ice is thawing at a pace that is alarming climate scientists. Meanwhile in Washington, D.C., Congress remains frozen on the issue of carbon pricing. And that may be a good thing. Carbon pricing, as most r ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, energy, grassroots activism, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Tackling climate: Beltway tone-deafness edition On subsidizing 'green' energy R&D	Brian Beutler	17 Sep 2007	Gristmill
In its 'green' issue this week, The New Republic features an excerpt from Ted Nordhaus and Michael Schellenberger's new book, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility. Their basic point is that the emphasis of the political debate is all wrong. I'm not sure they really understand how things are shaping up, but they're saying that politicians should spend less 'time' talking about regulatory approaches, and more time reiterati ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, coal, energy, innovation, politics (all these topics)

Pricing carbon Give away rights or sell them?	Gar Lipow	03 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Joseph Romm in his post on Dingell's carbon tax proposal says: Politically, you can't raise carbon prices high enough to raise gasoline prices since even $1 a gallon -- probably the minimum to significantly change fuel economy if Europe is any evidence -- would require a carbon charge of $400 per tonne of carbon -- which would be very harsh to coal, adding more than 10 cents per kilowatt-hour to coal electricity, and politically impossible (I'll post more on this late ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, energy, politics (all these topics)

Is this the right time to attack Dingell? He's pro-carbon tax, anti-CAFE -- which matters more?	David Roberts	27 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Last week, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), chair of the Energy & Commerce Committee, dropped this bomb (sub. rqd.): My own judgment is that we are going to have to adopt a cap-and-trade system and some form of carbon emission fee to achieve the reductions we need. Lest you missed it, 'carbon emission fee' is clever poli-speak for carbon tax. Meanwhile, the liberal grassroots group MoveOn has launched a full frontal assault on Dingell, with radio ads calling him ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, energy, John Dingell, politics (all these topics)

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