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My Green Element: One Step Closer to Federal Regulation
Climate Progress: Nobelist Krugman strongly endorses Waxman-Markey: “The claim that carbon taxes are better than cap and trade is, in my view, just wrong.”
The Energy Collective: Nobelist Krugman strongly endorses Waxman-Markey: “The claim that carbon taxes are better than cap and trade is, in my view, just wrong.”
One Step Closer to Federal Regulation
My Green Element —
... The free credits will ratchet down every year, so that there is both an incentive to address carbon emissions, as well as the opportunity for utilities to sell their unused credits on the open market. While many environmentalists deride giving away these carbon credits to companies which have had years to prepare for national climate legislation, as Paul Krugman asks in his column this morning whether they are, “making the perfect the enemy of the good.” He goes on to say: ...
Nobelist Krugman strongly endorses Waxman-Markey: “The claim that carbon taxes are better than cap and trade is, in my view, just wrong.”
Climate Progress —
The man who is arguably the most credible progressive expert on economics has begun to seriously weigh in on the clean energy and global warming bill (see Krugman: Climate action “now might actually help the economy recover from its current slump” by giving “businesses a reason to invest in new equipment and facilities”).
In today’s column, “The Perfect, the Good, the Planet,” he argues for the bird in the hand:
If we’re going to get real action on climate change any time soon, it will be via some version of legislation proposed by Representatives Henry Waxman and Edward Markey. Their bill would ...
Nobelist Krugman strongly endorses Waxman-Markey: “The claim that carbon taxes are better than cap and trade is, in my view, just wrong.”
The Energy Collective —
The man who is arguably the most credible progressive expert on economics has begun to seriously weigh in on the clean energy and global warming bill (see Krugman: Climate action “now might actually help the economy recover from its current slump” by giving “businesses a reason to invest in new equipment and facilities”).
In today’s column, “The Perfect, the Good, the Planet,” he argues for the bird in the hand:
If we’re going to get real action on climate change any time soon, it will be via some version of legislation proposed by Representatives Henry Waxman and Edward Markey. Their bill would limit greenhouse ...
What's Happening: Waxman-Markey Mark Up, New Auto Efficiency Standards, and more
Greenlight | OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC —
... has sought to enact for years over the objections of the auto industry and the Bush administration...The effect will be a single new national standard that will create a car and light truck fleet in the United States that is almost 40 percent cleaner and more fuel-efficient by 2016 than it is today, with an average of 35.5 miles per gallon." [New York Times] OPINION Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman on why the Waxman-Markey bill needs to pass. [New York Times] FUNNIES[The New Yorker] RECOMMENDED READING ...
Waxman-Markey Counterproductive?
Only In It For The Gold —
... I am still deferring to Mr. Gore and to Mr. Krugman, not to mention to David Roberts who seems to be wavering. So I am relectuant to argue against this bill. ...
