Aparna Mathur

Three Options for Better Climate Policy

Thanks to a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency has to do something to control them. But the act is ill-suited to controlling a non-toxic global pollutant. The law requires the EPA to set separate emissions

May 28, 2014Adele C. Morris

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Corporations, Local Revenues, Tough Love, and Carbon

The House Ways and Means Committee marks up a bill restoring more expired tax breaks tomorrow. On the table: a measure making bonus depreciation for business investment permanent and reforming the tax treatment of some charitable giving. Bloomberg reports that the tax panel will consider whether to

May 28, 2014Renu Zaretsky

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Turning Carbon Tax Theory Into Reality

A carbon tax has great appeal. It could reduce the risk of climate change by building emissions costs into market prices, thus discouraging the use of carbon-based fuels. And it would make a lot of revenue available for a broad range of purposes including reducing other taxes, new spending, or

May 27, 2014Howard Gleckman