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Category: Cap-and-Trade Watch
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Warning: NSFW (Unless you work at a University and part of your job is to watch stuff like this and post it on a blog). The highlights of this have been around all week, but most of the clips are just Bill Nye the Science Guy saying "motherf***ers. But this segment on Last Week Tonight…
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From the LA Times, Democrats and Republicans can get along on climate change policy: California lawmakers voted Monday evening to extend the state’s premiere program on climate change, a victory for Gov. Jerry Brown that included unprecedented Republican support for fighting global warming. In a break with party leaders and activists in California and Washington, eight Republicans joined with Democrats to…
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Severin Borenstein: So, can California’s cap-and-trade program be saved? Yes. But it will require moderating the view that there is one single emissions target that the state must hit. Instead, the program should be revised to have a price floor that is substantially higher than the current level, which is so low that it does…
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From the NYTimes Monday Briefing email: Representatives of 195 nations reached a landmark deal on Saturday that will commit almost every country to lowering planet-warming carbon emissions. It was six years in the making. The tough task of delivering on those promises now begins, but scientists are optimistic because of the cooperative tone of the…
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David Brooks* on December 1 (I'm a bit late): I’ve been confused about this Paris climate conference and how the world should move forward to ameliorate climate change, so I séanced up my hero Alexander Hamilton to see what he thought. I was sad to be reminded that he doesn’t actually talk in hip-hop, but…
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The Hill's Overnight Energy and the Environment: OBAMA CHATS CARBON TAX: President Obama downplayed Tuesday the likelihood of the U.S. passing a tax on carbon dioxide pollution any time soon, though he acknowledged that a carbon price is his preferred way to address climate change. "It's difficult," Obama told reporters on Paris on Tuesday. He…
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Dallas Burtraw and Anna Malinovskaya: The EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) for carbon dioxide is the world’s largest greenhouse gas trading program in scope and the most important environmental market in the world. After a somewhat volatile start in 2005, the EU ETS underwent significant changes beginning with phase three, which runs from 2013 to…
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Since 2009, [Exxon] has endorsed a carbon tax, a position shared by many environmentalists and economists. Taxing the carbon in fossil fuels — oil, coal, natural gas — would raise their prices. That would, at least in theory, encourage energy efficiency and switching to non-fossil fuels. (Exxon Mobil prefers a carbon tax to a cap-and-trade…
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Fun quiz from @dfarber – How well do you know the history of the EPA? https://t.co/tulZ9I768Z — Martin Heintzelman (@martinheintzel) November 4, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
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Rachel Cleetus: Tomorrow the final Clean Power Plan will be published in the Federal Register, which is the official publication of the federal government notifying the public about new regulations and guidance or changes to existing ones. We already know the Clean Power Plan is good for our health and our pocketbooks but that won’t…
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