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The main problem with carbon taxes is that they don’t physically limit carbon emissions; they only raise the price. Since we’re effectively addicted to fossil fuels, the tax has to get very high to persuade us to cut emissions by 80 percent.
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Peak Food » Blog Archive » New EU emission targets will help
The European Commission is proposing that car makers will be charged up to 95 Euros for every g/km over 120 g/km emitted by their entire model range for every car sold.
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Streetsblog » Is Barack Obama the Livable Streets Candidate?
It’s also worth noting that Chris Dodd is the only candidate with the guts to push for a carbon tax.
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Iowa Caucus: The Green Proving Grounds for Pres Hopefuls - GoodCleanTech
Dodd intends to push the mileage all the way up to 50 mpg by the same year and “generate $50 billion in revenue” from his proposed Corporate Carbon Tax.
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How Green Is Your Caucus? « Earth2Tech
Chris Dodd is all about a carbon tax, something he hopes would generate $50 billion in revenue, which would be put into the Corporate Carbon Tax Trust Fund to fund cleantech R&D. And he wants the strictest fuel efficiency standards of all: 50 mpg by 2017.
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Foreign Policy: What America Must Do: Kenneth Rogoff
The United States is causing 25 percent of global carbon emissions. There is no realistic way forward that doesn’t require the United States to cut its emissions in half, and I think a tax on carbon emissions is vastly better than various alternatives.
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Walker’s World: A non-boring 2008 - METimes.com
Everyone agrees that something must be done; vast differences remain over which countries should do what, and most Western politicians suspect that their voters will not like the most obvious recourse, a universal carbon tax. The irony, of course, is that
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TheRecord.com - Life - Time is now for concrete emissions-reduction plans
Canada needs to undertake a re-evaluation of its taxation structure with the intent of easing the tax burden for those industries and economic activities which are environmentally and socially desirable while increasing the taxation on economic activities
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A greener Oregon landscape in 2008 - OregonLive.com
House Bill 2212, allows individual and household tax filers to use the residential energy tax credit for more than one qualifying item — for a solar water heater and for multiple energy-efficient appliances, for example. The bill also increases the maxim
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California sues government for rejecting bid to curb emissions - Los Angeles Times
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, marks a new round in an epic five-year struggle between California and the federal government over whether states have the power to regulate carbon dioxide and other pollutants
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January 7th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
A massive carbon tax to replace income, sales and local taxes is the only way to drive change and innovation at the speed needed to keep warming below the 2C rise that many scientists think we will have runaway warming , at which point we will have lost control.
If Europe or the US introduced carbon tax they would be entitled to ask for a carbon audit on imports from any nation that did not tax carbon and charge a levy. This would mean the importing nation would be collecting the income and would encourage exporting nations to introduce their own carbon tax.Type your comment here.