Sentences with phrase «for taxes on carbon»

In a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should respond.

According to a report in the Palm Beach Daily News, Koch told an audience of around 600 people at the Florida city's Chamber of Commerce that anyone who advocates for taxes on carbon dioxide emissions is «on LSD.»

Let us hope that Leonardt's (2007) final observation from his day at Yale carries the day now that the dust is settling: «In other words, it's time for a tax on carbon emissions».

Another touts its support for a tax on carbon - dioxide emissions.

The plan calls for a tax on carbon emissions produced by burning fossil fuels, with revenues going back to Americans.

Not exact matches

Other proposals include a carbon tax on gasoline sales, limiting deductibility of state taxes for businesses by imposing the same caps that now apply to individuals, and taxing generous employer - provided health care plans.

It is certainly possible that Musk could see a «deal» to be made here: Trump supports a carbon tax in exchange for Musk dumping his views on global warming.

Others felt a carbon tax would simply be an added burden on Canada's already struggling manufacturing sector, and that any new tax would be irresponsible at a time when the economy may be headed for a recession.

Resuming predictable increases to the carbon tax will help the province get back on track for...

Whether individuals are better off for this quid pro quo depends on how carbon taxes affect fuel consumption.

This echoed an earlier proposal by center - right former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to levy a new border tariff on U.S. exports seeking to enter the EU in the event of a Paris withdrawal, as well as a call from the chairman of ArcelorMittal, a major global steel company, for Europe to establish a carbon border tax.

A natural gas bill for a customer from FortisBC, for example, shows that on a gas bill of $ 59.14, the carbon tax was $ 10.28.

The government will also give LNG Canada and other large emitters a break on carbon taxes, if they can meet strict new benchmarks for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and will aggressively pursue electrification of natural gas fields.

Speaking to a fundraiser for an Ottawa homeless shelter, Mr. Layton said carbon taxes would raise home heating costs and hurt Canadians living on the margins.

For example, Recommendation 5 states «That the federal government reaffirm is already strong commitment to keep taxes low and not impose on Canadians any form of carbon tax that would harm key sectors of the economy, while passing the costs on to Canadian families».

Clark and her government are totally manipulative as they dispense spin to a seemingly gullible public on how great they are for the environment - the current carbon tax of $ 30 a ton has remained frozen for years and recently they have approved a huge LNG project and will no doubt OK the Kinder Morgan pipeline - and there is pretty good chance the good citizens of this province will eat up all the propaganda and vote them back in!

But «if anybody in Canada thinks they are going to get Donald to build a nation of windmills, and turn all America into a bicycle lane or a place for carbon taxes» — in that event, «if they are very, very polite, he'll give them a free ride on Trump Cruise Lines back to where they came from.»

In a new report released today for Sustainable Prosperity (a new research institute), Jack Mintz and Nancy Olewiler pitch a federal carbon tax constructed by broadening the base of the federal excise tax (which currently raises over $ 5 billion per year based on a tax of 10 cents per litre of gas and 4 cents -LSB-...]

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VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government's 2018 budget: «Today's budget announced support for implementing key pieces of the government's climate change and clean growth plan, including putting a price on carbon pollution and extending tax support for clean energy.

In the 2008 federal election, Opposition Leader Stéphane Dion also tried but failed to convince the public of the need for a carbon tax, despite Canadians» support for action on climate change.

Canada's coming national price on carbon adds further fuel to the debate, as some will be looking for Canadian industries affected by the carbon price to get protections, maybe even in the form of a carbon tax applied at the border on goods coming from places in the U.S. where there is no such policy.

As for the carbon tax, pollster Janet Brown did an extensive poll in Alberta for CBC (there have been many articles on it in the last week on CBC) and one of the interesting findings was that 66 % of Albertan's are still against the carbon tax and want it eliminated.

Don MacIntyre, Wildrose MLA for Innisfail - Sylvan Lake, sidelined his party's attack on the carbon tax as a «tax on everything» when he dove into climate change denying rhetoric during a January 2, 2017 press conference at the Legislature.

If the NDP government is serious in their promise to meet the target, they will have to rely on more expensive regulatory policies to make up for the less stringent than recommended carbon tax.

Study into carbon tax on high - emissions food finds people would be more likely to eat less meat if they had to pay more for it

Yesterday the Herald revealed that agreement had been reached to start the scheme for three years with a fixed price on carbon - a de facto carbon tax - before it becomes an emissions trading scheme in which the market would set the price.

He criticizes Mr. Larson for his support of a carbon tax several years ago, saying it would cost jobs, and also criticized Mr. Larson for failing to gain National Park status for Coltsville in Hartford, saying Mr. Larson has been working on it since 2002 and it's a «simple» project.

If the original purpose of the tax is to account for negative externalities (tobacco taxes or carbon taxes for example), then cutting the taxes would allow those externalities to fall on the public.

The decisions the current Government takes on transport to tackle the dual challenges of climate change and rising oil prices could have significant repercussions for many years to come... Friends of the Earth is calling on the Government to: «Change direction on transport policy - and aim to rapidly move towards a low - carbon transport system... Vehicle Excise Duty must be changed to make road tax on gas - guzzlers more expensive - and cheaper for greener cars...»

He ran against Hillary Clinton for Senate in 2006, receiving 1.2 percent of the vote, and his platform calls for «universal single - payer health care, fully funded public schools, tuition - free SUNY and CUNY, building a carbon - free clean energy system — all paid for by restoring progressive tax rates on Wall Street and the rich.»

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.

They passed a motion on a green stimulus for the economy earlier this afternoon that included an amendment saying the government should «introduce a windfall tax on operators of existing nuclear stations, recovering through taxation the profits they make solely as a result of the introduction of the carbon floor price from April 2013».

In an interview with ClimateWire last night, the founder of NextGen Climate also downplayed the idea of placing a price on carbon dioxide and dismissed the notion of swapping the Clean Power Plan for a carbon tax.

Peter Ryan's letter makes a good argument for taxing carbon emissions on the consumption rather than production of goods (22/29...

Some economists believe a simple tax on greenhouse gas emissions makes more sense than the elaborate cap - and - trade regime for carbon dioxide envisioned by Evolution and other players in the nascent market.

The real role for a carbon tax, says Barker, is as a source of revenue to fund government action on the greenhouse effect.

«Over the longer term,» says Bradley Campbell, the former commissioner of New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection and now chief counsel to the PurGen project, «we're going to need a price on carbon, whether it's a tax or cap - and - trade legislation, for this plant to meet its potential.»

He also called for the U.S. government to tax or put a price on carbon emissions in order to encourage private investment in clean energy and curb climate change.

An early target of the campaign is European proposals for a carbon tax on fossil fuels, rising to $ 10 per barrel by the end of the decade.

Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax: Despite support for a carbon tax from ALEC members like ExxonMobil, ALEC is creating a model bill to weigh in on what will become the keystone policy battle for climate change science deniers, a battle that is already creating a rift among conservative groups, like the Koch - funded Heritage Foundation and the Heartland Institute against the R Street InstituTax: Despite support for a carbon tax from ALEC members like ExxonMobil, ALEC is creating a model bill to weigh in on what will become the keystone policy battle for climate change science deniers, a battle that is already creating a rift among conservative groups, like the Koch - funded Heritage Foundation and the Heartland Institute against the R Street Institutax from ALEC members like ExxonMobil, ALEC is creating a model bill to weigh in on what will become the keystone policy battle for climate change science deniers, a battle that is already creating a rift among conservative groups, like the Koch - funded Heritage Foundation and the Heartland Institute against the R Street Institute.

He cited Australia's Parliament, under a conservative coalition elected last year, which last week repealed a two - year - old tax on carbon dioxide emissions — the country's only legislated policy for reducing global warming pollution.

For instance, it is not clear if an import tax could vary based on the amount of carbon dioxide emitted during a good's production — WTO rules would have to be interpreted in a way that considers products not to be «like» each other based on their carbon footprints.

In this task, the study focuses on the approaches Chile, Mexico and South Africa have chosen for elaborating their carbon taxes.

A near - global carbon tax might be achieved, e.g., via a bi-lateral agreement between China and the United States, the greatest emitters, with a border duty imposed on products from nations without a carbon tax, which would provide a strong incentive for other nations to impose an equivalent carbon tax.

My personal preferences would be for states to impose a new consumption tax on something that's bad for the world, like gambling or carbon emissions or sugar or cigarettes, but states could also impose a special tax on millionaires or rent out some state asset (like highways or parking lots).

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If there is any good news to come out of this, the tax appears to be aimed at reducing the carbon footprint of publishers which seeks to be environmentally beneficial by essentially taking punitive measures to punish the industry for its waste of pulp and extensive shipping requirements on bulky products.

Japan's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is a 26 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 from 2013 levels.1 To achieve this, the Japanese government has set carbon targets for all sectors backed up by a national carbon tax and Tokyo emissions trading scheme.