carbon taxes

A Carbon Tax is Not the Solution to Global Climate Change

The definition of insanity, according to a famous quotation (often mis-attributed to Albert Einstein) is “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different...

October 5, 2021Eric Toder

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Clean Energy Tax Credits Can’t Do the Work of a Carbon Tax

As another season of record-breaking heat, wildfires, and hurricanes unfolds, Congress is debating how to address climate change and fund green infrastructure in its $3.5...

October 5, 2021Thornton Matheson

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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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Most 2020 Candidates Say They’d Fight Climate Change, But Leaders Don’t Back A Carbon Tax

Most presidential candidates acknowledge the urgency of climate change. Few would use tax policy to its full potential.

November 26, 2019Thornton Matheson

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How Should Government Return Carbon Taxes To Households?

Carbon dividends are the hottest idea in climate policy. A diverse mix of progressive and conservative voices are backing the idea of returning carbon tax...

December 12, 2018Donald Marron

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Halloween Candy for Tax Nerds: 2018's State Ballot Initiatives

Election Day 2018 has a bumper crop of voter initiatives on state taxes, ranging from new levies on carbon, payroll, motor fuels, marijuana, soda, and...

October 25, 2018Richard C. Auxier

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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

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Senate Democrats Would Take Some Small Steps To Clean Up Energy Tax Breaks

A group of 28 Senate Democrats has proposed a major new energy bill that includes what they call significant reforms in the dozens of tax breaks aimed at encouraging the production and use of clean energy. I’ll let real energy policy experts speak to the broader bill, but the tax provisions are

September 21, 2015Howard Gleckman

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Nine Tax Stories to Watch in 2015

So much has changed. Yet, when it comes to taxes, so much has not. Republicans have taken control of Congress and now hold governorships in 31 states. The U.S. economy is finally on solid ground. And presidential hopefuls are gearing up for the 2016 election. But for all that, the top tax stories

January 6, 2015Howard Gleckman

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Could EPA’s New Greenhouse Gas Rules Open the Door to a State-based Carbon Tax?

EPA’s proposed tough new standards for power-plant emissions of greenhouse gasses opens the door to new state or regional cap-and-trade systems to limit carbon discharges. It is less clear whether it would go the next step and permit states to impose their own carbon tax. The proposed EPA rules,

June 2, 2014Howard Gleckman