Sentences with phrase «on carbon pollution raises»

Instead of discouraging productive effort, initiative and investment as other tax burdens do, a tax on carbon pollution raises the cost of harmful activity and thereby encourages efficiency and renewable energy.

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Releasing Natuna's carbon pollution would make it «the world's largest point source emitter of CO2 and raises concern for the possible incremental impact of Natuna on the CO2 greenhouse problem,» declared an October 1984 report from Exxon's top climate modeler, Brian Flannery, and his boss Andrew Callegari.

A revenue - neutral carbon tax is also beloved by economists, since it involves raising taxes on something our society wants less of — pollution — and using the money to lower taxes on the productive economic activities we want more of, such as paid work.

Inglis's «Raise Wages, Cut Carbon Act of 2009» proposed a rising tax on carbon pollution.

Former GOP Reps. Sherwood Boehlert and Wayne Gilchrest wrote in a 2012 op - ed that a fee on carbon pollution could «raise $ 200 billion or more over 10 years and trillions of dollars by 2050 while cutting carbon emissions by 17 percent by 2020.»

The proposed carbon fee - and - rebate policy would place a fee on carbon pollution in the District and rebate a majority of revenue raised back to D.C. residents.

The proposed «Climate and Community Reinvestment Act» would place a fee on carbon pollution in the District and rebate the large majority of revenue raised back to D.C. residents.

At Georgetown University today, Obama stated that his administration would expand renewable energy projects on federal lands, raise energy efficiency standards on appliances, and, most importantly, limit carbon pollution from both existing and new power plants, which represent about 40 percent of the U.S.'s emissions.

Releasing Natuna's carbon pollution would make it «the world's largest point source emitter of CO2 and raises concern for the possible incremental impact of Natuna on the CO2 greenhouse problem,» declared an October 1984 report from Exxon's top climate modeler, Brian Flannery, and his boss Andrew Callegari.

«We share the view that a significantly more aggressive agenda on carbon capture and storage and zero - pollution coal is necessary,» he said, adding that the administration has raised annual spending on storage options «from essentially zero to over $ 70 million.»

The idea is simple: Reduce taxes on something you want (incomes) and raise taxes on something you'd like to see less of (carbon pollution).

Informed sources have revealed that the U.S. Bureau of Unlimited Residential Nitpicking (BURN), after a study of carbon dioxide pollution in urban housing, is considering a ban on the sale of homes in which the current occupants have exhaled excessively, thus raising the atmosphere's carbon dioxide content to unacceptable levels.