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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Carbon tax loses a congressional voice Dingell takes his 'hybrid tax' off the table	Charles Komanoff	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill
The carbon tax camp lost a powerful congressional voice yesterday when Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) announced he was taking 'off the table' the hybrid carbon tax proposal he floated last fall that featured a national carbon fee, supplemental increases in taxes on gasoline and aviation fuel, and a reduction in the mortgage interest deduction for super-large houses. In a prepared statement, the Michigan lawmaker, who for much of his 54 years in Congress has chaired th ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, carbon tax, climate, energy, gas prices, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Dingell to debut House climate bill in April	David Roberts	06 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Dingell says he'll release a draft of a House climate change bill for comment and feedback in mid-April (sub rqd).
Topics: climate, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Killing me loudly Big Green savages Dingell's carbon tax	Charles Komanoff	15 Oct 2007	Gristmill
'Man always kills the thing he loves,' wrote naturalist Aldo Leopold in the environmentalist bible, A Sand County Almanac. Leopold was referring to Americans' destruction of the wilderness, but he could have been describing the green establishment's hostile reaction to the 'hybrid carbon tax' proposed by Michigan Rep. John Dingell last month. Dingell's tax package, combining a carbon-busting tax on fossil fuels, a surtax on gasoline and jet fuel, and a phase-ou ...
Topics: climate, energy, John Dingell, 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)

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)

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)

Dingell is dispensable Even though conventional wisdom says you need him to pass major environmental legislation	Glenn Hurowitz	13 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Whether House Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell is a potential friend or an implacable foe is not only the subject of intense debate here at Gristmill, but a key strategic question for the environmental movement and the Democratic Party. I recently wrote an article for The American Prospect about how Dingell's fellow congressional Democrats are abandoning him as he tries to obstruct meaningful energy and climate legislation -- and implied that his diminished p ...
Topics: climate, energy, John Dingell, legislation, Nancy Pelosi, politics (all these topics)

Dingell's dimwitted detractors Activists pester him about the most trivial stuff	David Roberts	09 Aug 2007	Gristmill
OK, I'm back to defending Dingell (sorry Brian!), mainly because the activists attacking him are acting like idiots. At a town hall in Ann Arbor, Mich., Dingell unveiled the various climate-change proposals he's going to introduce to Congress on Sep. 1. Press coverage of the event is fairly sketchy, and I can't find a transcript anywhere, so there's not a lot of detail, but the measures include: A carbon tax of up to $100 per ton. A gas tax of $0.50 a gall ...
Topics: climate, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Details on Dingell's carbon tax It's not optimal, but he says he's serious about it at least	David Roberts	20 Jul 2007	Gristmill
As you'll recall, a few weeks ago Rep. John Dingell said in an interview that he plans to introduce a carbon tax bill, "to see how people really feel about this." He expressed doubt that the American people are willing to pay what it will cost. Reaction from progressives was swift and vicious. Everyone assumed Dingell would deliberately design a horrible bill, fail to support it, watch it go down in flames, and thereby poison the debate. See, e.g., this uns ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Dingell calls our bluff He proposes a carbon tax, assuming it will fail	David Roberts	12 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Last Sunday, Rep. John Dingell appeared on the C-SPAN show Newsmakers for a 30-min. interview (transcript here; video accessible via the website), and caused an enormous ruckus with this: SWAIN: Mr. Chairman, I want to go back to your statement that the American people want action [on climate change]. Does that also correlate with the American people being willing to pay higher prices, because of energy legislation? DINGELL: I sincerely doubt that the American p ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

More Dingell The House's most indecipherable, um, cipher	David Roberts	27 Jun 2007	Gristmill
I've been getting some interesting -- and widely varied -- reactions to this post on Dingell. So here's a follow-up. First, MoveOn's political action campaign director, Ilyse Hogue, sends me this: Rep. Dingell has been late to the game and is well behind other Democratic leaders whose vision can make our country competitive in the 21st century. His calls in the last couple days for greenhouse gas reductions and (maybe) a carbon tax are good steps. But this is not ab ...
Topics: climate, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

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