Sentences with phrase «first carbon tax»

One of the jurisdictions furthest ahead on this curve in Canada is British Columbia, whose Liberal government recently introduced the first carbon tax in the country.

This is where the first carbon tax in North America was introduced, and where the provincial Liberal government won reelection on a carbon tax platform.

We published an article in The Nation magazine decrying left - green dogmatism that doomed the campaign in Washington state to enact the USA's first carbon tax.

Now, the Energy and Policy Institute has discovered that ExxonMobil lobbied against two bills that sought to establish the nation's first carbon tax in the state of Massachusetts.

It would be the first carbon tax in the US, the biggest in North America, and one of the most ambitious in the world.

We started our own campus fossil fuel divestment campaigns, and over the past few years we built CarbonWA, a Washington state grassroots organization with over 20 chapters that put forward America's first carbon tax initiative.

Washington residents will vote on the nation's first carbon tax.

If passed, I - 732 would put in place the nation's first carbon tax.

«While we did not pass the nation's first carbon tax, many states around the country are looking at I - 732 as a model and we expect a nationwide movement to take root in the years ahead.

«While we did not pass the nation's first carbon tax, many states around the country are looking at I - 732 as a model and we expect a nationwide movement to take root in the years ahead,» sYoram Bauman, founder and co-chair of Carbon Washington, said in a prepared concession statement late Tuesday.

Floridians will decide on a contentious solar energy measure, and Washington may pass the country's first carbon tax

Seven were in B.C. alone (the province, it should be noted, that introduced North America's first carbon tax).

Not waiting for national legislation to set a price on carbon and kickstart the journey to a low - carbon future, Montgomery County, Maryland has enacted one the country's first carbon taxes.

Not exact matches

She has slashed the cabinet in half, raised the minimum wage and announced plans to double the province's carbon tax over the next two years, the first such change in nearly a decade.

United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney has vowed to repeal the carbon tax if he is chosen the next Premier of Alberta, with his first piece of Legislation Bill 1, the Carbon Tax Repeal Atax if he is chosen the next Premier of Alberta, with his first piece of Legislation Bill 1, the Carbon Tax Repeal ATax Repeal Act.

While axing a tax on the fuel Albertans produce is popular, much of the energy sector appears reasonably happy a provincial government is doing things to erase Alberta's old image as an environmental laggard; last month, oil sands heavyweights Suncor and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. talked up Alberta's new environmental efforts to European investors, and their executives joined Notley on stage when the climate change plan and carbon tax were first announced.

At 7 p.m. People of Albany United for Safe Energy sponsors a forum on putting a price on climate change through a carbon tax or fee to make polluters pay for the air pollution they emit, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 405 Washington Ave., Albany.

The move to «ax the tax» — as Prime Minister Tony Abbott is fond of saying — makes Australia the first country in the world to abolish a functioning carbon pricing scheme.

«Our results raise the question of how climate finance should be designed and whether developing countries should be integrated in an international market for emission rights in the first place — other instruments such as a carbon tax could be more suitable,» says Kornek.

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That way you will not be among «those creating the problem in the first place» and won't be paying a carbon tax either.

Hansen wrote ``... In my testimony [to Congress] I noted that a «Cap» raises the price of energy, just as does a simple honest carbon tax on oil, gas and coal at the first sale at the mine or port of entry.

The world's first national carbon tax was just finalized.

The first step in this is to make electricity from coal much more expensive because the utilities will need to generate the money to pay the carbon tax (or offsets or whatever you want to call them).

Given the time frame for US elections, unless the new president enacts a carbon tax within the first few months of taking office, we are going to miss the real window of opportunity.

An auctioned cap or a tax with 100 % return of the proceeds to the people is the most practical policy for several reasons: (a) it would begin real carbon reductions quickly; (b) it would be an honest and transparent way of treating the American people; (c) it would attract the broadest attainable political coalition across party lines; (d) it would be administratively simple for both the government and the private sector (with the tax or auctioned permits collected at the first point of sale or import of the carbon - containing fuel); (e) it would be a non-regressive way of introducing the carbon price into the economy; and (f) it would avoid a fiasco such as the special interest feeding frenzy that surrounded the recently failed Boxer - Lieberman - Warner bill in Congress.

It's a bad idea because when you have a carbon tax, first of all, it's not a mandate.

Singapore became the first Southeast Asian country to launch a carbon tax when the bill was passed in Parliament in March.

Since the bill was first mooted, environmentalists, industry and academia have weighed in on the pros and cons of the tax, which will take a hybrid carbon tax and credits form.

Australia is close to enacting its first tax on carbon emissions.

Indeed, because when they implemented the carbon tax, the BC government paid forward the first year — delivering checks to everyone in the province to cover the full year's revenues — there was no rise in energy cost, even temporary.

If the initiative passes, Washington will be the first state in the nation with a carbon tax.

Probably the greatest argument for a carbon tax is the pressing need for taxation reform overall, coupled with the need for bipartisanship in tackling CO2 emissions and I'll address the latter point first although they're inextricably linked, the moment carbon taxing is mooted as a bipartisan option.

A minimal first step would be to ensure that all fossil fuel inputs to biofuels are carbon - taxed, including natural gas used as feedstock for ammonia - based fertilizers of corn grown for ethanol.

The nation's first state ballot measure to impose a carbon tax on fossil fuels failed Tuesday on a crowded slate of statewide initiatives in Washington.

Mr Abbott meanwhile has repeated his blood pledge that if the Coalition wins the next federal election, the first thing he will do is repeal the carbon tax.

On the first criterion, Weitzman points out that while a carbon tax is more easily administered and more transparent than a cap - and - trade system, a carbon cap or a tax can both achieve cost - effective emissions reductions.

On November 8, voters in the Evergreen State rejected by a nearly 3 - to - 2 margin what would have been the nation's first statewide carbon tax.

First, CCL's goal is a federal tax on carbon.

And while carbon tax could yet play a critical role in that agenda, Congress will have to take the critical first steps.

Stanwell said it is looking forward to the removal of the carbon tax, which it said cost $ 355 million in its first year (state owned black coal generators did not get compensation).

It's likely the first of many such deals by Claudia Cattaneo You know Canadian competitiveness is in big trouble when even investors in renewable energy — favoured by Canadian governments through subsidies, plus carbon taxes and regulatory overload on competing fossil - fuel energy — are leaving because they like lower U.S. taxes even more.

It seemed a stunning reversal when his government's February 2007 speech from the throne declared a four - part war on climate change to include North America's first broad - based revenue - neutral carbon tax, mandatory public sector carbon neutrality and plans for participation in a regional cap and trade system.

Of the policy options being considered by governments, we believe a revenue - neutral carbon tax is the best — a position we first took more than seven years ago.

Should governments decide to impose carbon costs, ExxonMobil advocates for a comprehensive carbon tax as compared to other policy options, a position we first stated publicly seven years ago.

The first and most important thing that the Australian government should do is to impose a carbon tax.

First, it's unlikely that Congress would dedicate the vast bulk of the proceeds to the most economically attractive tax cuts, which is the only condition under which such a «double dividend» (meaning, a carbon tax will produce both an environmental dividend and an economic dividend) could theoretically arise.

Several provinces, including Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia and Quebec reject any effort to introduce a federal tax, though they agreed at a first ministers» conference in Vancouver that governments should adopt some undefined form of carbon pricing.

Take Australia, where Prime Minister Julia Gillard first promised the public there would be no carbon tax.

I - 732 is a revenue - neutral carbon tax — the first of its kind in the U.S..