]> http://www.greenedia.com/tags/carbon-tax Blog Articles Tagged with 'carbon-tax' at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-capital/154593?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Crude oil futures jumped for the second straight day to more than $42 due to violence in the Middle East and Chinese stockpiling of oil, helping offset weaker demand, Bloomberg reports.The search for fresh sources of oil is igniting a showdown betwee... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-capital/154593?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:37:28 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/earth-blog/154494?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax It is reported President Bush is closing off some of President-Elect Obama's immediate climate policy alternatives [ark] with last minute midnight environmental regulations. These include barring the Environmental Protection Agency from considerin... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/earth-blog/154494?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:00:59 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-ark/154497?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax It is reported President Bush is closing off some of President-Elect Obama's immediate climate policy alternatives [ark] with last minute midnight environmental regulations. These include barring the Environmental Protection Agency from considerin... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-ark/154497?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:00:59 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-priorities/154631?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax December 31, 2008 -- The best way to start addressing climate change is to yank subsidies from fossil fuels and put a price on carbon dioxide emissions from them. Of the two methods widely discussed for pricing carbon -- cap and trade, and a carbon t... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-priorities/154631?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:23:02 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/watchdog-earth/153882?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Gas is cheap again, and guess what? Sales of gas guzzlers are on the rise.Look here.The trend has prompted this commentary from Tom Friedman in the New York Times:Have a nice day. It's morning again -- in Saudi Arabia.I was speaking with a couple of ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/watchdog-earth/153882?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/153658?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Tim's latest post chronicles Tom Friedman's entry into the gas tax column watch: Win, Win, Win, Win, Win .... Today's New York Times also features another, perhaps slightly more surprising, op-ed:Supply-side godfather Arthur Laffer is throwing his h... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/153658?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:19:31 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/153659?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Sometimes I really want to hug the guy (Win, Win, Win, Win, Win ...):That is why I believe the second biggest decision Barack Obama has to make the first is deciding the size of the stimulus is whether to increase the federal gasoline tax or ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/153659?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:38:26 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/earth-blog/153898?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax President-Elect Obama's pick of two of the very best -- Jane Lubchenco [search] and John Holden [search] -- for important positions in his administration, seems to portend a major focus upon climate by the incoming administration. Early indications ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/earth-blog/153898?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:35:12 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-ark/153902?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax President-Elect Obama's pick of two of the very best -- Jane Lubchenco [search] and John Holden [search] -- for important positions in his administration, seems to portend a major focus upon climate by the incoming administration. Early indications ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-ark/153902?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:35:12 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/california-energy-blog/153159?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Arthur Laffer's oped in today's Wall Street Journal is required reading.Yes, I know... that Arthur Laffer -- the apostle of supply-side economics and the archetype of everything that the Republicans allegedly did wrong. But this piece on energy inde... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/california-energy-blog/153159?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:53:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/153202?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax When it comes to making the transition to a green, low carbon economy, government stimulus plans are doubly beneficial, but public sector investment and spending alone will not be enough to spur decisive action and a long-term commitment. Nor... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/153202?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:40:43 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/worldwatch-institute/153420?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Eminent climatologist James Hansen will urge U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to support a carbon tax, in a letter to be sent this week, Hansen said. Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies, is one of the leading voices for a... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/worldwatch-institute/153420?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/alt-energy-stocks/152138?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax by Tom Konrad, Ph.D.Economics and Greenery, a Belated RapprochementIt is truly a triumph of economic ways of thinking that many of environmentalactivists are championing market-based approaches to tackling climatechange. Those people who are notf... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/alt-energy-stocks/152138?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:07:28 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152215?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax The editors introduce the climate change policy symposium in the latest issue of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy:In the first of three articles in this symposium on Alternative U.S. Climate Policy Instruments, Nathaniel Keohane pres... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/152215?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:48:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/151523?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax As rapidly as it has fallen, the average pump price of unleaded regular gasoline in the US still has a ways to go, to end up lower on Barack Obama's Inaugural Day next January 20 than its inflation-adjusted level of $1.60 per gallon when Bill Clinton... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/151523?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:59:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/151550?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Here is the rationale behind the assertion that a global cap-and-trade won't work: China emphatically opposes a hard emissions cap on its economy.Here is the proposed alternative:President Obama can define his legacy in the first 100 days by layingth... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/151550?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:46:43 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/151462?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Canada's political soap opera continues to get more interesting. This afternoon the federal Liberals and New Democrats signed an historic accord to form a coalition government, in which the Liberals would get 18 cabinet seats and the New Democrats w... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/151462?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:20:16 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/150562?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax To James Hansen (and his fellow 350 ppm-ers):You make a compelling case we must ultimately return atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide to 350 parts per million to avoid catastrophic climate impacts (see Stabilize at 350 ppm or risk ice-fre... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/150562?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:24:57 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/150256?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax While watching the scenery from Amtrak's Acela on my way back from a meeting in New York yesterday, I made my first sighting of $1.99 per gallon gasoline, posted on the polesign of a station in Delaware. With wholesale gasoline trading on the New Yor... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/150256?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:58:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-capital/150110?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax If the next administration cant save Detroit, how can it save the planet?The recent plunge in crude oil and gasoline prices has put higher gasoline taxes at the top of the agendafor editorial pages and academics, at least. The Washington Post and The... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-capital/150110?rsstype=tag&tag=carbon-tax Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:31:12 -0500