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Category: Cap-and-Trade
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The subtitle is "Fertilizer runoff is making us sick. States can step in to regulate farmers." It's interesting that we're hoping states, not the federal government, will do the dirty work of telling farmers that they are making people sick. Here is the end of the article: Differential treatment of agricultural polluters cannot continue. Requiring…
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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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David Frum in The Atlantic re: Acid Rain and "the grand policy experiment": … The Reagan administration resisted any rapid response to the problem. Congress had funded a 10-year study back in 1980—why rush to costly action until the study was complete? Taking action meant tangling with Robert Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat who assumed leadership…
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The Legislature of the State of Ohio is currently considering legislation to reduce Phosphorous loadings into Lake Erie by 40%. This is a good thing, as reducing Phosphorous going into Lake Erie will reduce the incidence and impact of Harmful Algal Blooms in the Western Lake Erie Basin. The proposed legislation establishes a Clean Lake…
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The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme, the world's largest greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program, will be taking a new step to stabilize permit prices. Starting in January 2019, the Market Stability Reserve will go into effect, which aims to stabilize price by reducing the long-standing permit surpluses that have plagued the ETC. The reserve will: address…
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We’ll know the smart economists at Georg Mason U are liberated from Koch influences when they can endorse pricing carbon. https://t.co/JetHtvJZao — Adele C. Morris, Ph.D. (@AdeleCMorris) May 2, 2018 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Alternative post titles: When free market environmentalism meets a global public good Actually, this isn't the biggest problem for George Mason economics Climate Liberty?
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In case you are wondering: The 'American Chopper' meme featuring Paul Teutul and son, explained
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From the NYTimes editorial page: … New Jersey, under its new governor, Phil Murphy, a Democrat, will join — more precisely, rejoin — the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a consortium of nine Eastern and New England states that has achieved substantial emissions reductions from large power plants since its start in 2009. … RGGI (pronounced…
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With a carbon tax or cap-and-trade: In 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued the Clean Power Plan under which each state can set a mass-based target to meet its assigned electric power sector carbon dioxide emission reductions. If it proceeds, states can design policies to meet those requirements and also raise revenue via a…
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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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