Sentences with phrase «legislated tax on carbon»

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He cited Australia's Parliament, under a conservative coalition elected last year, which last week repealed a two - year - old tax on carbon dioxide emissions — the country's only legislated policy for reducing global warming pollution.

Even if Congress legislates carbon taxes, nothing suggests that EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will refrain from imposing EPA's anti-hydrocarbon rules on top of them or that the White House and Senate will reject any new U.N. treaty.

Unless Congress steps up and legislates on this front (preferably via a carbon tax), it will continue to stand impotently on the sidelines while administrative actors make all of the important decisions for decades to come.

Shultz concluded that robust funding of clean energy research and development, plus a revenue - neutral carbon tax, «starting small and escalating to a significant level on a legislated schedule» would «do the trick» and are the kinds of policies Reagan would advocate to avert climate disaster.