Alternatives to ACESA
The Senator Cantwell (D-WA) and Senator Collins (R-ME) Carbon Limits and Energy for America’s Renewal (CLEAR) Act
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Senator Maria Cantwell
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Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC), Flake (R-AZ), and Lipinski (D-IL) introduce the "Raise Wages, Cut Carbon" Act of 2009
Full text of H.R. 2380
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Rep. John Larson (D-CT) introduces America's Energy Security Trust Fund Act of 2009 H.R. 1337
Full text of H.R. 1337
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Seven proposals for pricing mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have been introduced in the 111th Congress.
The Carbon Tax Center provides an overview, grouping similar bills together, followed by a more detailed analysis.
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House Briefing
December 9, 2008
A National Carbon Tax: Another Option for Carbon Pricing
Speakers included:
Congressman John B. Larson
5th-term Democratic Representative from Hartford, CT
James Hansen
Leading climate scientist
Gilbert Metcalf
Professor of Economics, Tufts University; Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
Robert Shapiro
Co-Founder and Chairman, Sonecon; former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs
James Hoggan
British Columbia Public Affairs Advisor; Chair, David Suzuki Foundation
Brent Blackwelder (Moderator)
President, Friends of the Earth (Video is Q&A Session)
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See the left side column to watch the full speaker testimonies.
Flickr Slideshow photos by Nick Berning from Friends of the Earth
"The Taxmen Cometh: Hill breifing tries to stir support for a carbon tax" Grist.org
"Carbon Tax a Better Idea?" Greentech Media
July 2009
New York Times
July 3, 2009
Taking Steps to Fight Global Warming
By Steve Volk of CCL
June 2009
June 8, 2009
Could Cap and Trade Cause Another Market Meltdown?
By Rachel Morris
Grist.org
June 3, 2009
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Waxman-Markey Energy/Climate Bill--in Bullet Points
By Kate Sheppard
May 2009
The Economist
May 21, 2009
Weak Medicine
Yale Environment 360
May 7, 2009
Putting a Price on Carbon: An Emissions Cap or A Tax?
National Journal
May 2, 2009
How To Do Cap-and-Trade
By Clive Crook
April 2009
Carbon Tax Center
April 22, 2009
Parsing the Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Bill
By James Handley and Devin Helfrich
The Age News (Australia)
April 20, 2009
Time to scrap emission impossible: The Government may pay the ultimate price if it persists with a flawed carbon scheme
By Kenneth Davidson
McClatchy Newspapers
April 18, 2009
Some fear cap-and-trade system for emissions will lead to financial 'carbon bubble'
By Les Blumenthal
Counterpunch
April 15, 2009
How Wall Street Will Game the Regs and Trash the Planet: Carbon Cap and Trade
By Heather Williams and Paul Baker
Tufts Daily
April 13, 2009
Tufts professor suggests an economically friendly method to combat climate change
By Mitchell Duffy
The Reason Foundation
April 9, 2009
Cap-and-Trade Handouts: The largest corporate welfare program ever enacted in the history of the United States
By Ronald Baily
Huffington Post
April 8, 2009
The Carbon Tax: A Moral Issue
By Father Paul Mayer
New Ork Times
April 7, 2009
"Show Us the Ball"
By Thomas L. Friedman
New York Times
Dec 7, 2008
"The Real Generation X"
By Thomas L. Friedman
NDN Blog
April 1, 2009
Is Cap and Trade a Dead Policy Walking?By Robert J. Shapiro (former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs)
March 2009
Wall Street Journal
March 27, 2009
Alternative Energy Will Suffer Under Cap and Trade
Reation to Fred Krupp's March 24 Op-Ed "Carbon Caps are the Best Policy"
New Yorker Magazine
March 23, 2009
Not Insane
By Hendrik Hertzberg
February 2009
New York Times Business Section
February 21, 2009
The Dangers of 'Cap and Trade'
By Ben Stein
Seattle PI
February 13, 2009
Climate Change: Install a Carbon Tax
Christian Science Monitor
February 13, 2009
To Slow Climate Change, Tax Carbon
January 2009
CNN Money
Jan 9, 2009
Does the Country Need a big Gas Tax?
Downloads
Addressing the Risks of Climate Change: The Politics of the Policy Options
by Elaine Kamarck, PhD. for the U.S. Climate Task Force
Market-Based Greenhouse Gas Control: Selected Proposals in the 111th Congress
by Ramseur, Parker, and Yacobucci for Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Subprime Carbon: Re-thinking the worlds largest new derivatives market
by Michelle Chan of Friends of the Earth
The Triple Win: An Energy Security Payroll Tax Swap
by Rep. Bob Inglis of South Carolina
The Design of a Carbon Tax
by Glibert Metcalf of Tufts University and David Wesibach of University of Chicago
Carbon Tax and Greenhouse Gas Control: Options and Considerations for Congress
by Ramseur and Parker of Congressional Research Service (CRS)
2008 Carbon Tax Archives
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