carbon tax
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Climate hawk vs. climate hawk: State carbon tax divides national environmental leaders
A battle over a ballot initiative in Washington state has boiled over onto the national scene.
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The most dramatic climate fight of the election is in Washington state
A climate tax is opposed by some green groups that want a stronger focus on social justice.
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Gary Johnson on climate: Eh, the sun will destroy the planet eventually anyway
The Libertarian candidate believes global warming is a moot point.
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Here’s the movie you should send your climate-apathetic friends to see
"Merchants of Doubt" feels like a dystopian science fiction film -- except it’s a documentary, and it’s about shady climate science in the United States right now.
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But seriously, folks — this stand-up economist says Republicans will like his carbon tax
Comiconomist Yoram Bauman has a carbon tax plan for Washington state. The punch line: He thinks he can get both political parties on board.
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Getting stoned in Boulder will now come with a carbon fee
Boulder County, in the weed kingdom of Colorado, plans to start charging pot producers extra to offset their carbon costs.
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Critical List: Australia will have a carbon tax; 10 percent of Chinese farmland contaminated
Australia is going to have a carbon tax: The prime minister's plan just passed the country's senate. Not only do cars kill, so do commutes. A man in England dumped more than 1 million tires across the country. Heavy metals have contaminated 10 percent of farmland in China. Shorter Rick Perry: The government should stop […]
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Critical List: Australia inches from passing a carbon tax; Rick Perry’s secret economic sauce
Australia's carbon tax bill passed its lower House by a thin majority; it should easily pass the Senate and make it into law.
An oil cleanup contest awarded $1 million to the winning Team Elastec/American Marine, which soaked up 4,670 gallons of oil per minute and got to 89.5 percent of the oil, on average.
China is going to tax the hell out of oil and gas and reinvest the money in nuclear reactors and wind farms. -
Critical List: Shipping industry objects to E.U. emissions scheme; when horses act like squirrels
Like the airline industry, the shipping industry objects to the E.U.'s decisions to include it in a emissions trading system.
Will the federal government be spending less on disaster response in the future? Somehow “let ‘em drown” doesn’t seem like the best possible debt reduction plan.
Australia's carbon tax, which was so hotly disputed that people were sending climate scientists death threats, would apply to just 400 of the country's top polluters.
Hydro turbines are going into the Puget Sound by late summer 2013.