carbon emissions

Border Carbon Adjustment without Carbon Pricing Makes Little Sense

A group of Senate Democrats has introduced a bill to impose tariffs on imports of carbon-intensive goods and fossil fuels equal to the domestic environmental...

August 9, 2021Thornton Matheson

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Bill Nordhaus, The Nobel Prize, And Carbon Taxes

Bill Nordhaus, Climate Change, And Carbon Taxes Two events this week raised the profile of carbon taxes. The first was a report by the UN...

October 10, 2018Howard Gleckman

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Distributional Effects of a Carbon Tax Depend on How the Revenue is Spent

Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy just released a series of papers on how a carbon tax would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, affect economic...

July 19, 2018Eric Toder

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Everything You Should Know about Taxing Carbon

Climate change is hot. From the pope’s encyclical to the upcoming United Nations conference in Paris, leaders are debating how to slow and eventually stop the warming of our planet. We economists think we have an answer: put a price on carbon dioxide and the other gases driving climate change. When

June 25, 2015Donald Marron

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All's Fair in Love and Taxes... Or Not.

Et tu, Utah ? GOP leaders want to increase the state’s gasoline tax . The state faces an $11 billion budget gap for transportation projects slated through 2040. Its House GOP caucus has endorsed an increase of as much as 10 cents a gallon in the state’s gasoline tax. They’re even willing to tie the

January 8, 2015Renu Zaretsky

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Bigger, Cleaner, and More Efficient: A Carbon-Corporate Tax Swap

The Cato Institute has organized an online forum to debate pro-growth economic policy reforms. Tax Policy Center scholars Bill Gale, Donald Marron, and Eric Toder have each contributed to the discussion. The United States could reduce its contribution to global climate change and increase domestic

November 21, 2014Donald Marron