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Increasing Agreement on Carbon Taxes -- Goodbye 2008 Conventional Wisdom

Dan Rosenblum | Posted 01.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Obama Energy Policy, Thomas Friedman, Foreign Oil, Cap and Trade, Wto, Automakers Bailout, Charles Krauthammer, The New York Times Op-Ed, Gas Tax, Bob Inglis, Obama Administration Environmental Policy, Environmentalism, Obama Gas Tax, Arthur Laffer, Barack Obama, Republicans Gas Tax, Wall Stree Journal Op-Ed, Carbon Tax, David Frum, Congress Gas Tax, Detroit Bailout, Green News
Dan Rosenblum

This convergence of opinion from Left and Right signals an extraordinary opportunity to obtain bipartisan support for a revenue-neutral carbon tax.

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10 Predictions for 2009 That are Really Wishes

Francine Hardaway | Posted 01.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Carbon Tax, Clean Coal, Corporate Sustainability, Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Hybrid Cars, Sustainability, Green News
Francine Hardaway

I'm not so much predicting what will happen in the recycling world as defining what I think might happen, and indeed, HOPE might happen.

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Cap and Trade Under Attack -- Say It Ain't So, Mr. Nader

Bill Chameides | Posted 01.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Carbon Markets, Ralph Nader, Climate Change, Global Warming, Wall Street Journal, Green News
Bill Chameides

After eight long years in the legislative desert, we have a president and Congress committed to passing climate legislation. But any celebration is premature.

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At Last, It Begins: Real, Substantive Debate on 2009 Climate Legislation

Dan Rosenblum | Posted 12.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Payroll Taxes, T. Boone Pickens, Energy Prices, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Tax, Al Gore Climate Change, 2009 Climate Legislation, President-Elect Obama, Obama Climate Change, Taxpayers, Carbon Emissions Economy, Curb Emissions, Green News
Dan Rosenblum

If introducing a new tax on carbon seems like a quixotic political battle in a time of historic economic and fiscal crisis, then you're out of touch. The crisis has in fact given it a big boost.

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Morgan Stanley Floats Tidal Power Plans

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 11.29.2008 | Green

Read More: Google, Energy, S Renewable Energy, United Kingdom, Computers, Renewable Energy, Green Business, Green Energy, Morgan Stanley, Carbon Tax, Scotland, Green News, Tidal Power, Clean Technology, Oceans, Technology, Green News
Josie Garthwaite

Morgan Stanley plans to build a 150-megawatt data center powered entirely by tidal energy off the coast of Scotland, the banking giant announced earlier this month.

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The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI): A Step in the Right Direction

Good | Ben Jervey | Posted 11.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Carbon Emissions, The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Environment, Western Climate Initiative, RGGI, Carbon Footprint, Green News

America's first formal crack at regulating industrial greenhouse gas emissions kicked off last week with a much-ballyhooed carbon auction that should ...

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Carbon Markets and Environmentalism: Is 'Market-Based' the New Dirty Word(s)?

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.31.2008 | Green

Read More: Carbon Tax, Carbon Trading, Carbon Markets, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

These are strange, even frightening times. But global warming remains a problem that must be addressed, and soon. Cap-and-trade still seems to me to be the best way to go.

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Taking a Cue from the Canadian Election's Focus on Climate Change

Jeremy Jacquot | Posted 10.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Stephane Dion, Stephen Harper, Climate Change, Carbon Tax, Canada, Green News
Jeremy Jacquot

Imagine for a minute an election in which green issues like carbon taxes and renewable energy take center stage -- an election in which 60 percent of ...

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China May Tax Big Cars As Much as 40 Percent

AP | ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted 09.13.2008 | Green

Read More: China, Suvs, SUV Sales, Cars, Taxes, Taxes on Cars, Car Taxes, Carbon Tax, Reducing Carbon Emissions, Reducing Emissions, China Pollution, Green News

SHANGHAI, China — China is raising its sales tax on big cars to as high as 40 percent, and drastically cutting taxes on small cars, in its lates...

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South Africa Pushes Climate Change Plan: Ambitious Proposal Includes Carbon Tax

AFP | Sibongile Khumalo | Posted 08.12.2008 | Green

Read More: South Africa, Carbon Tax, South Africa Climate Change Plan, Green, Green News, Environment, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Climate Change, Green News

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's government has set out an ambitious proposal to deal with climate change in the coming years, including slapping a possi...

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Carbon Tax? We Don't Need No Carbon Tax, We Already Have One.

Lloyd Alter | Posted 07.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Oil, Oil Prices, Carbon Tax, Big Oil, High Gas Prices, Gas Prices, Oil Shock, Terrorism, Gas Tax, Oil Money, Oil Sheik, Green News
Lloyd Alter

We are already paying carbon taxes, and they are working the way environmentalists said they would. But let's try not to send so much of it to oil companies and the Middle East.

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The Free and Clean Hydrogen Age (Part 3)

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Free Hydrogen, Carbon Tax, Peak Oil, Global Warming, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

The government doesn't need to suffocate the economy in order to produce sufficient revenues to support a free and clean hydrogen economy.

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Less-Dependence Day, July 4, 2008

Paula Gordon | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Gas Prices, Cap and Trade, Denis Hayes, Energy Less-Dependence, Carbon Tax, Energy Policy, Politics News
Paula Gordon

We can start today by focusing on energy, by working to use less of it, and by demanding that carbon be taxed at a level commensurate with the damage it causes. Less-Dependence for All.

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Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near on Global Warming

Dr. James Hansen | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Carbon, Warming, Carbon Tax, Fossil Fuels, Dr. James Hansen, Exxonmobil, Global Warming Skepticism, Global Warming, Green News
Dr. James Hansen

Yesterday, I testified to Congress about global warming, 20 years after I first alerted the public that warming was underway. There are striking similarities between then and now, but one big difference.

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While Earth Warms

David Victor | Posted 06.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Price Floors, Carbon Tax, Carbon Emissions, High Oil Prices, Greenhouse Gases, Gas Tax, Oil Prices, Climate Change, Oil Politics, Green News
David Victor

Serious global warming policies require careful political engineering because they imply a radical reorganization of the energy system. Last week's vote is a reminder that those policies could be years away.

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Carbon Tax: Canadian Green Party Talks Cap-And-Trade

National Post | Elizabeth May | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green

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This week, contributors to the National Post debate the pros and cons of a carbon tax. In today's instalment, Green party leader Elizabeth May argues ...

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Ex-Bush Speechwriter Frum "Terrified" By Current GOP Landscape

NY Times | DEBORAH SOLOMON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: American Enterprise Institute, Republican Presidential Candidate, Aei, Bush Administration, Republican Primary, Carbon Tax, Axis of Evil, David Frum, New York Times, Gop, Politics News

As a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former speechwriter for President Bush, you're surprisingly critical of him in your new ...

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Can Carbon-Taxers and Cap-and-Traders Unite to Price Carbon?

Mike Sandler | Posted 01.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Thomas Friedman, James Hansen, Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Carbon, Energy, Carbon Emissions, Alternative Energy, Green Issues, Green News
Mike Sandler

We find the practitioners of this dismal science in the midst of a wonky civil war. They are divided into two camps: those who favor a carbon tax and those who prefer cap and trade.

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