Is Cap and Trade for Pet Projects or for Transformation?
For California to meet its AB32 goals, the state will need to do more than just tinkering with its energy and transportation systems.
For California to meet its AB32 goals, the state will need to do more than just tinkering with its energy and transportation systems.
Mike Sandler | Posted 05.25.2011
Who took the state to court over their efforts to protect the climate this time? Not the oil companies, coal-dependent utilities, or Tea Partiers. No, this time it was environmental justice interests.
Wendy Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011
I enjoyed the holidays in an old farm house nestled on a pastured hillside in the western part of the Catskill Mountains. The state park is our neigh...
Mike Sandler | Posted 05.25.2011
UN delegates have been meeting for 18 years. Hasn't anyone figured out a concept that would unify the countries around a single framework? How about equity?
Bob Jacobson | Posted 05.25.2011
If John Adler is a man of his people, it's a different people from the rest of us. Adler is one of 47 Democrats who presented House Speaker Pelosi with a letter threatening to keep tax cuts for the richest 2% of Americans.
Erich Pica | Posted 05.25.2011
Senator Kerry and Senator Lieberman are telling everybody who has a microphone that their climate bill isn't dead. But their aggressive reassurances are misplaced energy.
John Passacantando | Posted 05.25.2011
I've worked for almost 20 years to stop global warming and yet I felt joy when the Senate global warming bill began to unravel. How did we get here?
Mike Sandler | Posted 05.25.2011
All of this talk of offsets needlessly complicates the basics of a carbon permit system. Polluters pay, and people get the money. That's the way you do it.
Donnie Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011
"Cap-and-trade as we know it is dead, but the issue of cleaning up the air and energy independence should not die -- and you will never have energy in...
Mike Sandler | Posted 05.25.2011
The key to success for a new climate boss will be in finding common ground for both low-emitting and high-emitting countries, and the key to that is an equity framework such as Cap & Share or Cap & Dividend.
Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore | Posted 05.25.2011
Is climate change legislation dead for the foreseeable future? Maybe not. There's still a sleeper bill that tackles carbon emissions and puts money into American's pockets that is now picking up steam.
Robert Stavins | Posted 05.25.2011
Here's a modified version of cap-and-trade that could be much more attractive in this era of rampant expressions of populism, coming both from the right ("no new taxes") and the left ("bash the corporations").
Mike Sandler | Posted 05.25.2011
The Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012, and if we don't do something BIG to really start reducing greenhouse gas emissions after that, we are screwed in a big, Emmerich-movie-like way.
Mike Sandler | Posted 05.25.2011
A proposed anti-global warming bill would help the U.S. make a fair, affordable transition to a clean-energy, low-carbon economy, and avoid the pitfalls of other climate bills that pander to the coal-burning utilities.
Mike Sandler | Posted 05.25.2011
I don't blame Dorgan and Pomeroy for being sceptical of the "postage stamp" strategy. Their state will face major costs, and the strategy puts supporters at risk in the 2010 or 2012 elections.
Mike Sandler | Posted 05.25.2011
Fuel and electricity costs are highly visible, but under Waxman-Markey, the benefits to consumers will be mostly invisible.
Mike Sandler | Posted 05.25.2011
It would be as if the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 legislated monetary policy through 1940. Ridiculous, right? I mean, who had the crystal ball to predict that Great Depression thing?
Mike Sandler | Posted 05.25.2011
Unfortunately, the economics of estimating how much climate policy might cost households has almost as many variables and feedback loops as climate science.
Mike Sandler | Posted 05.25.2011
Two climate change bills were introduced last week. If we liken these two bills to race horses, they have just left the gate and they have many laps still to go
good.is | Posted 05.25.2011
Enter the Great Third Way, more formally known as cap-and-dividend. The cap part is familiar--a set number of pollution permits would be auctioned off...
Mike Tidwell | Posted 05.25.2011
A cap-and-dividend system would move energy markets toward clean fuels while generating billions of dollars in monthly dividend checks shared equally by all American families, guaranteed.
Mike Sandler | Posted 05.25.2011
If environmental protection is a "luxury," then developing countries should emit as much as they need to, then when they're wealthier, create environmental laws to deal with the mess.
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.25.2011
Here's an entertaining, possibly emerging trend I should have predicted: cartoons used to explain green issues or technologies. Last week, someone se...
Mike Sandler | Posted 04.17.2012