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Paul Krugman: China, Climate Change

Alison van Diggelen | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Krugman, Obama, Interview, Advice, Climate Change, China, Fresh Dialogues, Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Global Warming, Politics News
Alison van Diggelen

"Climate change is the mother of all externalities ... left without any government intervention, we're going to par-boil the planet," says Krugman.

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Boulder's Progressives Retain Power, But Only Barely

Bob Wells | Posted 11.05.2009 | Denver

Read More: Macon Cowles, Boulder-City-Council, Election, Progressives, Boulder, Colorado Politics, Carbon Tax, Crystal Gray, George Karakehian, Denver News
Bob Wells

The nine-member council that's to be sworn into office Nov. 17 will reflect a sharply divided city, with the real progressives holding a tenuous 5-4 majority.

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Necessary But Not Sufficient: Congress' Climate Bill

Anne Butterfield | Posted 10.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Climate Change, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Clean Air Act, Climate Bill, Epa, Carbon Tax, Global Warming, Exxonmobil, Denver News
Anne Butterfield

The planet's survival relies partly on a climate bill but mostly on continued grassroots assault on coal plants and other offenders, plus disruptive clean technologies to take our markets by storm.

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Nobel Prize Recognizes Link Between Peace and Climate Action

Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Legislation, Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore, Copenhagen 2009, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, Obama Nobel, Green News
Frances Beinecke

After eight costly years of inaction, the United States has begun to lead. Since taking office, Obama has moved quickly to put climate change near the top of his agenda.

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Closing The $1.5 Trillion "Fix-Up" Gap in Obama's Economic Plan

John F. Wasik | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Economic Stimulus Package, America, Public Transportation, Economic Crisis, Infrastructure, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Carbon Tax, Unemployment, Stimulus Spending, Gas Tax, Economic Recovery, Recession, Politics News
John F. Wasik

One glaring subject that Obama avoided in the campaign is how to pay for infrastructure over time and how it will dovetail with an overall strategy to address climate change.

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Cap-and-Trade Versus the Alternatives for U.S. Climate Policy

Robert Stavins | Posted 10.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Market-Based Environmental Policies, New Source Review, Carbon Tax, National Journal, Endangerment Finding, Regulation, Obama Administration, Hamilton Project, Global Climate Policy, Japan, CAFE Standards, Sulfur Dioxide, Cap-and-Trade, Environmental Politics, Ozone Depleting Substances, RECLAIM Program, Leaded Gasoline, Waxman-Markey, Green News
Robert Stavins

One of the key merits of the cap-and-trade approach is that the program can provide cost-effectiveness, while achieving meaningful reductions in greenhouse gas emissions levels.

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Tax or Trade to Cut Carbon?

Bernie Bulkin | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Green News
Bernie Bulkin

The key problem with using a carbon tax to curb demand and thus reduce emissions, is that we have very poor understanding of how the consumers will react to the higher price

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Economist Greg Mankiw's Bottom Line on Climate Policy: Government Can't Do Anything Right

David Roberts | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Economics, Economy, Climate Change, Regulation, Gregory Mankiw, Small Government, Green News
David Roberts

Harvard economics professor Gregory Mankiw's main point in his recent NYT op-ed is that a refunded carbon tax would be preferable to a cap-and-trade system, because ... economists prefer it.

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How to Contact Congress and Save Health Care in Two Easy Steps

Bill Scher | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care, Public Plan, Senate, Congress, Carbon Tax, Senate Finance Committee, Health Care Reform, Climate Change, Politics News
Bill Scher

Can liberals outdo conservatives in contacting Congress? I sense that we progressives are not nearly as conditioned to call their representatives as conservatives are.

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Jason Linkins

Chuck Todd And Glenn Greenwald To Debate Torture Investigations (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Torture Investigations, Chuck Todd, Media Criticism, Mark Sanford, Sarah Palin, Glenn Greenwald, Torture, Media News

Salon's Glenn Greenwald called out MSNBC's Chuck Todd at great length Wednesday for a segment Todd participated in on Morning Joe in which, per Green...

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Heads Still in the Sand on Global Warming

Charles Alexander | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, House, James Manzi, Climate Change, Congress, Harvard Club, Global Warming, Manhattan Institute, Senate, Climate Bill, Green News
Charles Alexander

The current energy system is choking our quality of life and mortgaging our future; indignant conservatives want to conserve everything but the planet.

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The Carbon Dioxide Credit Program

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Global Warming, Carbon Dioxide Credit Program, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

Anyone with any knowledge of this subject will tell you that the carbon tax is more sensible than cap and trade. So why is cap and trade being foisted on the public?

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California Weighs Nation's First Statewide Carbon Tax On Polluting Industries

AP | SAMANTHA YOUNG | Posted 07.26.2009 | Green

Read More: California Carbon Tax, Pollution, Carbon Tax, Carbon Fee, California, Green News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California regulators on Thursday delayed a decision on whether to implement the nation's first statewide carbon fee on uti...

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Washington Post Columnist Steven Pearlstein Gets Climate Bill Wrong

David Roberts | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Tax, Waxman Markey Bill, Cap-and-Trade, Waxman-Markey, Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Complementary Policies, Green News
David Roberts

Pearlstein's hyperbole is par for the course these days. Lots of people have taken to exaggerating the complexity and opacity of the Waxman-Markey bill based primarily on its page length.

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Cap-and-Trade vs. Carbon Tax: A Bird in Hand Is Worth Two on Alpha Centauri

David Roberts | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cap and Trade, Kevin Drum, Carbon Tax, Andrew Sullivan, Cap-and-Trade, Renewable Energy, James Hansen, Climate Change, Carbon Taxes, Politics News
David Roberts

grist.orgI find it really hard to believe, but the perennial "carbon tax vs. cap-and-trade" debate is still going on. It goes on and on and on and it ...

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Somebody Hide Tom Friedman's Ball

David Roberts | Posted 05.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Cap and Trade, Thomas Friedman, Energy Efficiency, Carbon Tax, Renewable Energy, New York Times, Climate Change, Green News
David Roberts

Friedman's latest column is just an outright nuclear disaster: head-slappingly wrong on the merits, politically naive and tone deaf, and timed so poorly as to be malicious. Just about every single sentence is a train wreck.

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The Carbon Tax: A Moral Issue

Father Paul Mayer | Posted 05.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Tax, Dr. James Hanse, Climate Change, Larsen Bill, Communities of Faith, Waxman Bill, Global Warming, Climate Crisis Coalition, Archbishop Tutu, Cap and Trade, Carbon Emissions, Carbon-Tax, Energy Conservation, Green Energy, Price Carbon Campaign, Cap-and-Trade, Rising Oceans, Green News
Father Paul Mayer

The dramatic moment has come when the human species because it is responsible for most of this damage, must radically reconsider its activity in the name of its own survival.

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Recycling Scary Numbers to Protect the Status Quo

Dan Lashof | Posted 05.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Carboncaps, Economy, energyandclimate2009, Energy, Carbon Tax, Green News
Dan Lashof

Comprehensive energy and climate legislation will create and protect millions of good paying "green" jobs across the nation, helping restore our economy to full employment more rapidly.

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Questions to Ask of New Climate Legislation

Mike Sandler | Posted 04.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Climate Change, Carbon Tax, Legislation, President Obama, Carbon Emissions, Global Warming, Green News
Mike Sandler

Each climate change proposal has the potential to split allies into feuding factions. The danger is that the fossil fuel lobby will use their public relations machine to derail action another year.

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I Love It When You Talk Carbon Taxes!

David Hawkins | Posted 03.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Taxes, Carbon Tax, Green News
David Hawkins

These days the siren song of a carbon tax fills the ear of many commentators who urge us to recognize its beauty and steer our ship in its direction.

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I Love It When You Talk Carbon Taxes!

David Hawkins | Posted 03.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Taxes, Carbon Tax, Green News
David Hawkins

These days the siren song of a carbon tax fills the ear of many commentators who urge us to recognize its beauty and steer our ship in its direction.

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Thinking CAP? Curse Jar? Let X Decide...

A. Siegel | Posted 03.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Defense, Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Environmental Defense Action Fund, Advertising, Global Warming, Climate Change, Green News
A. Siegel

The EDAF opened voting for 'the people's choice' as to the best 30-second video to explain how a Cap & Trade program to control carbon dioxide would help cut the nation's dependence on oil.

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Exxon Goes Green?

Andrew Winston | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Taxes, Rex Tillerson, Carbon Tax, Cap-and-Trade, Deficits, Greg Mankiw, Exxon Mobil, Larry Summers, Al Gore, Supply and Demand Oil, Ralph Nader, Green News
Andrew Winston

I never thought I'd say it, but I agree with Exxon on an environmental issue.

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Will Conservatives be Obama's "Best Allies" in the Climate Fight?

David Roberts | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Arthur Laffer, Climate Change, Conservatives, Carbon Tax, Bob Inglis, Green News
David Roberts

In last weekend's New York Times, conservatives Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) and Arthur Laffer had an op-ed claiming that a revenue-neutral "tax shift" would make conservatives "the new administration's best allies on climate change." Color me skeptical.

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