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energyoutlook.blogspot.com - 5/13/2009
The Non-Tax Tax
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When President Obama campaigned in 2007 and 2008, cap & trade was the centerpiece of his strategy on climate change. The latest iteration of cap & trade legislation is being developed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, within the broader Waxman-Markey Bill . After numerous ...
Putting a Price on Carbon: An Emissions Cap or A Tax?
e360.yale.edu - 5/7/2009
Putting a Price on Carbon: An Emissions Cap or A Tax?
— e360.yale.edu — The days of freely dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere are coming to an end, but how... best to price carbon emissions remains in dispute. As the U.S. Congress debates the issue, Yale Environment 360 asked eight experts to discuss the merits of ... (more) Putting a Price on Carbon: An Emissions Cap or A Tax?

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initforthegold.blogspot.com - 5/7/2009
Cap & Trade vs Emissions Tax
— initforthegold.blogspot.com — A nice effort to untangle the cap and trade vs carbon tax mess at Yale Environment360 ,... interviewing eight experts. There was disagreement on many points, but on one issue most concurred. As Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, said, imposing some sort of ... (more) Cap & Trade vs Emissions Tax

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theenergycollective.com - 5/7/2009
Cap & Trade vs Emissions Tax
— theenergycollective.com — A nice effort to untangle the cap and trade vs carbon tax mess at Yale Environment360 ,... interviewing eight experts. There was disagreement on many points, but on one issue most concurred. As Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, said, imposing some sort of ... (more) Cap & Trade vs Emissions Tax

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A De Facto Gasoline Tax?
The Energy Collective — ... later this summer. But while it contains many important measures, including a proposed national renewable electricity mandate, the core of the bill is its cap & trade provisions, and at the heart of those is its method for distributing emissions allocations and offsets, which I have just reviewed. The House Energy and Commerce Committee moved very far, indeed, from President Obama's ideal of a bill based on auctioning 100% of those allowances. That's probably a good thing, as I noted recently. However, the implications of the committee's choices for ...

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