carbon tax
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If efficiency hasn't cut energy use, then what?
One of the most penetrating critiques of energy-efficiency dogma you'll ever read is in this week's New Yorker. "The efficiency dilemma," by David Owen, has this provocative subtitle: "If our machines use less energy, will we just use them more?" Owen's answer is a resounding, iconoclastic, and probably correct Yes.
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Regional cap-and-trade advances
Everyone is disappointed about climate policy prospects. I can't say that I'm thrilled, but we should take heart at what's happening on the state level
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Taxing carbon as part of responsible, progressive fiscal policy
Here's a progressive plan to cut the deficit while investing in the future (and taxing carbon). Can climate hawks and deficit hawks find common cause?
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Attention, cap-and-trade fans: the carbon-tax people are not going away
This past weekend, about 500 people gathered at Wesleyan College in Middletown, Conn., for the Pricing Carbon Conference.
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Carbon-pricing and technology R&D initiatives: Both are necessary, but neither is sufficient
Economists and other policy analysts have noted that policies intended to foster climate-friendly technology research and development will also be necessary, but likewise will not be sufficient on their own.
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Don't screw up natural gas
Washington should focus first on policies that will deter capital-intensive investment in long-lived sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Tech will solve the climate crisis faster than laws
Emphasizing technological innovation would render moot the debate about technology-first versus technology-only.
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Time for climate hawks to take to the hills?
It's time climate hawks heeded the lesson America's revolutionaries learned after they took a few drubbings at the hands of the British Redcoats.
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Climate action plan: Innovate first, regulate later
Technology policy -- not carbon caps -- is our best hope for fighting climate change.