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Let's price carbon Conservatives still don't seem to get global warming	Ryan Avent	04 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Many political observers -- those, at least, not wholly gutted by cynicism after eight years of criminally negligent Republican leadership -- wonder when public concern over global warming will prompt a serious, thoughtful conservative response. Those hoping for real solutions from the GOP political leadership may have a long time to wait, but some conservative thinkers are beginning to wrestle with warming in an intellectually honest, if mistaken, manner. Over at The ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, politics (all these topics)

News from the Googleplex Is Google betting on a carbon tax?	Charles Komanoff	29 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Google Inc. has a new project, 'Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal.' Google is preparing to bet megabucks, mega-engineers, and its cutting-edge reputation on its ability to propel solar thermal power, wind turbines, and other renewable electricity up the innovation curve and under the cost of coal-fired power, Reuters reported Tuesday. "Our goal is to produce one gigawatt [1,000 megawatts] of renewable energy capacity that is cheaper than coal. We are opt ...
Topics: business, carbon tax, energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Not-so-great grandfathering Cap-and-trade vs. a carbon tax	Clark Williams-Derry	27 Nov 2007	Gristmill
I don't know what to say about this article, which is largely a critique of a grandfathered "cap-and-trade" system for reducing greenhouse emissions. On the one hand, I shouldn't complain. Any serious discussion in the press of climate policy is welcome. But on the other hand -- jeez, is it so hard to get climate policy right? My problem isn't so much that the article gets things wrong (though it does). It's that it tells, at most, half the stor ...
Topics: business, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, energy (all these topics)

Larry Craig's climate views belong in the toilet Sen. Craig believes a cap-and-trade system is pointless	Joseph Romm	10 Nov 2007	Gristmill
OK, maybe it's a good thing that the morally-challenged senator is on the other side of the debate. He recently said: My position is perfectly clear: a cap and trade system is obsolete in its approach to green house gas reductions, it has not worked, and I do not see it working. Yes a very good position for a delayer, since a carbon tax is a political nonstarter (and dubious for other reasons), while a technology-only strategy can't do the job. This is not, ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, politics (all these topics)

Portland of the Fee Portland, Ore., will pay builders to build green		09 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 2:07 PM on 09 Nov 2007 Portland, Ore., has unveiled an innovative plan to slash greenhouse-gas emissions. The city will require an energy-efficiency inspection of new homes, then levy a tax on builders who have merely complied with Oregon's efficiency requirements. Builders who construct homes 30 percent more efficient than the state building code requires will escape the fee; those who go above and beyond, with cons ...
Topics: carbon tax, energy, energy efficiency, green building, innovation, news, placemaking, Portland (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)

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)

U.S. Mayors Climate Conference: Bloomberg Four principles that should guide federal climate change policy	David Roberts	05 Nov 2007	Gristmill
The following was written before and during NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg's address to the U.S. Mayors Conference on Friday, Nov. 2. Technical problems and, um, life intervened, so I'm only now getting it up. Sorry. Michael Blomberg: Pro carbon tax, anti ethanol subsidies Photo: U.S. Mayors Conference Well, here I am, in a restaurant on the Seattle waterfront, hip deep in irony. I'm here to cover the keynote address of NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg, except ... I c ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, politics (all these topics)

My reply to Bloomberg's speech in Seattle Carbon taxes, cap-and-trade, and getting things right	Eric de Place	02 Nov 2007	Gristmill
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg just gave a bombshell speech here in Seattle calling for a federal carbon tax. (Full text of the speech is here, scroll down.) First off, way to go, Bloomberg! (In fact, Sightline Institute's Anna Fahey has written about Bloomberg's awesome framing.) But now, with my researcher's hat on, I think it's worth it to clarify a few things. While many of Bloomberg's arguments in favor of a carbon tax were spot-on, he made some ver ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, energy, carbon trading, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Bloomberg speaks out in Seattle NYC mayor climbs aboard the carbon tax train	Charles Komanoff	02 Nov 2007	Gristmill
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg declared his support today for a national carbon tax, according to a report posted on the New York Times City Room blog by metro reporter Sewell Chan: Mayor Bloomberg plans to announce today his support for a national carbon tax. In what his aides are calling one of the most significant policy addresses of his second and final term, the mayor will argue that directly taxing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Shifting on the tax shift B.C. considers a carbon tax	Alan Durning	28 Oct 2007	Gristmill
In 1998, shortly after Sightline (then Northwest Environment Watch) published Tax Shift (PDF), Gordon Campbell, then BC's opposition leader, invited me for a sit-down to discuss the book. He had read it and said he loved it. At the time, the New Democratic BC government was gearing up to do a pilot tax shift, inspired by the book. It was also about to be routed in provincial elections, to be replaced by Campbell's Liberals. Campbell said, "In our first term, we're ...
Topics: Canada, carbon tax (all these topics)

Cheese-eating tax monkeys French prez Sarkozy backs carbon tax	David Roberts	25 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Via CK at the CTC, I see that French president Nicolas Sarkozy has called for a carbon tax in France, as well a a levy on imports from countries that don't participate in the Kyoto Protocol. Hm, who might those be? U.S. right-wingers like to use Sarkozy as a rhetorical bludgeon, showing that Europe is moving toward the U.S. rather than vice versa. I wonder if this will cause any of their little pea brains to short-circuit. If the tax issue doesn't, this surely will ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, France, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Slow down China has not officially endorsed a carbon price	David Roberts	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill
As I mentioned yesterday, a new report from the InterAcademy Council advocates for a price on carbon (among many other things). I started reading it last night, and it's fantastic -- more on it later. The report was commissioned by China and Brazil. The foreword is by Lu Yongxiang, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Somehow, our own Charles Komanoff extracts from this slender evidence that "China has put its weight behind a carbon tax -- or a carb ...
Topics: China, carbon tax, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

To CAFE or not to CAFE The CAFE standards vs. carbon tax debate is more complicated than we imagine	Ryan Avent	12 Oct 2007	Gristmill
One of the most frustrating aspects of the climate debate has to be the fact that just about every informed pundit, across the ideological spectrum, agrees that a carbon tax would be an outstanding way to reduce carbon emissions -- and yet no one considers such a tax politically feasible. One might suggest that if pundits weren't constantly qualifying their support for a carbon tax with lamentations about its political impossibility, political support might be more forthc ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, fuel efficiency, legislation, 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)

Quebec and Call Quebec introduces carbon tax		02 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 4:13 PM on 02 Oct 2007 Determined not to let British Columbia hog the green spotlight, the province of Quebec has introduced Canada's first carbon tax. The tax, to be levied on gasoline, diesel, heating oil, and coal, is expected to raise $200 million a year to fund the province's emissions-reduction plans. Apparently Quebec never got the memo that taxes are communist plots developed by the French ... hey, wait a minute! source:� Reuters, A ...
Topics: Canada, carbon tax, energy, news, politics (all these topics)

The Dingell Life Michigan Rep. John Dingell drafts a carbon-tax bill		27 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 3:09 PM on 27 Sep 2007 Michigan Rep. John Dingell (D) has drafted a carbon-tax bill and posted a summary to his website to solicit public feedback. In its current form, Dingell's legislation would phase in over five years a $50-per-ton tax on carbon and a tax of 50 cents per gallon on gasoline and jet fuel (after five years the tax would be indexed to inflation). The bill would also phase out tax deductions for homes ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, John Dingell, legislation, news, 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)

Clinton Global Initiative: Clinton chats with the press Bill Clinton wanted a carbon market back in the day, and he still does	Brian Beutler	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Bill Clinton just gave a short speech and took a few questions from reporters. Some highlights: When they were in office, Bill Clinton and Al Gore wanted to create a global carbon market. At the time, Europe thought the idea undesirable and unfeasible and didn't offer any support. The effort failed. Now, years down the line, the world is a different place and the idea has much more purchase. Clinton, when asked for his thoughts on this, managed to turn all of his ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Dingell opens the door Rep. John Dingell introduces his hybrid carbon tax	Charles Komanoff	26 Sep 2007	Gristmill
With a mighty creak of long-rusted hinges, a door is finally opening in Washington. The present Congress will apparently be asked to consider a carbon tax. The measure -- actually, a hybrid carbon and petroleum tax -- will be introduced by the powerful chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.). Today Dingell posted on his website a summary of the bill, which he began drafting in June. The current version would phase in ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

You too can be John Dingell's legislative adviser Dingell wants feedback on his carbon tax bill	David Roberts	26 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Rep. John Dingell is going to put a draft of his carbon tax bill on his website this Thursday, to solicit feedback. (Did I say "tax"? I meant "emissions fee.") Reportedly, this marks the first time Dingell's done something like this. I dunno. If he's just introducing the tax to sabotage the rest of the climate legislation in the House, why do this? Why allow for public comment before introducing a bill if you mean the bill to fail? Inscrutabl ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics (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)

Mankiw very much Conservative economists agree: Taxes rule!	David Roberts	18 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Stalwart Republican, former Bush advisor, and Harvard economics professor Greg Mankiw makes the case for the carbon tax. He also thinks a carbon tax is the most achievable global policy:A global carbon tax would be easier to negotiate. All governments require revenue for public purposes. The world's nations could agree to use a carbon tax as one instrument to raise some of that revenue. No money needs to change hands across national borders. Each government could keep ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, international politics, 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)

Which way to screw the consumer WSJ on the carbon tax vs. cap-and-trade debate	David Roberts	13 Sep 2007	Gristmill
People keep emailing me this Wall Street Journal piece on the debate between carbon tax and cap-and-trade, but as far as I can tell there's nothing new in it. This is well-trod ground on sites like Grist. The one interesting thing about it is this graphic: For reasons Sean has well-described, I don't believe these kinds of figures. They are undergirded by tons of arguable assumptions. More to the point: as long as every story about fighting climate change is about ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

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