Sentences with phrase «take on carbon taxes»

Brier Dudley's imaginative take on carbon taxes makes for good reading, but if this were an Econ 101 paper, it'd receive an F for lousy analysis and cherry - picked data.

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The price of crude is on the rise, but in Canada, new carbon taxes, regulations and pipeline hurdles may take the industry permanently out of contention

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...»

What is your position on cap - and - trade, carbon taxes, and other policies proposed to address global climate change — and what steps can we take to improve our ability to tackle challenges like climate change that cross national boundaries?

A price on carbon need not take the form of cap and trade or a carbon tax.

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.

Some people have unwisely taken that logic to the extreme and suggested that if the US and other innovating nations just pushed hard on technology that there wouldn't be much need for emission limits, cap and trade or carbon taxes.

Yea, being forced by law to taking off my shoes at the airport and having a mandated carbon footprint setoff tax imposed on ordinary consumers are the same illusions of government protection in exchange for the certainty of lost liberty.

I would point out that I am not just a casual sceptic, but take the time to attend anti carbon tax protests, have a submission on record with the joint select committee reviewing the carbon tax and read and comment on a number of sceptic blogs.

Exactly a week after what was intended to be a secret meeting took place, Sen. Roy Blunt (R - MO) and 25 co-sponsors sent to the Senate Committee on Finance «A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the economy of the United States.»

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.

Tesla founder Elon Musk, one of the members of US President Donald Trump's «tech commitee,» took it to the president himself to adopt a tax on carbon emissions.

But for those concerned with taking steps to combat human - made climate change, the conversation on the left over Initiative 732 — a carbon tax swap championed by the group Carbon Washington that will make its way to voters this November — has often been difficult to endure.

On the bright side, the carbon tax averse B.C. folk have taken to renewable energy to heat their homes; wood, which also does not show up in the CO2 emission stats.

A carbon tax on coal destined to be burned will increase the price of electricity, but income tax, GST, or other taxes could be reduced so that the cost of living, and the total tax take, would remain the same.

On one hand, most major green groups have either come out against, or just failed to take a stand on, the most significant piece of environmental legislation on the ballot: Initiative 732's carbon taOn one hand, most major green groups have either come out against, or just failed to take a stand on, the most significant piece of environmental legislation on the ballot: Initiative 732's carbon taon, the most significant piece of environmental legislation on the ballot: Initiative 732's carbon taon the ballot: Initiative 732's carbon tax.

It would be interesting to see if Exxon took any position on the carbon taxes in Alberta and British Columbia (I didn't find anything after a brief search).

On Monday Trade Minister Craig Emerson took his defence of the carbon tax to a new level, performing a song and dance routine.

To make up for the missed revenue from the taxes and fire prevention fees, as well as to pay for offsets to counteract additional allowances put on the market if the carbon price hits its upper bound, money will be taken from the cap - and - trade program's revenue, effectively decreasing the amount of discretionary funds remaining for local environmental investments and other greenhouse gas reduction projects.

Veteran journalists Chris Pollon and Tom Barrett take the measure of Carbon Plan support — or not — in today's political context; look in on how B.C.'s unique - in - North - America carbon tax is working out; pull back the curtain on the mysterious world of carbon «offsets»; and more.

Not only would such a carbon tax be relatively easy to scale to a global system, but it would also take the health and environmental effects of fossil fuels into account, putting clean energy — from wind to nuclear — on an equal footing.

I would take it a step further and seek ways to tax vehicle commuters from Maryland and Virginia for their carbon impacts on our city.

Did you hear the speech that Al Gore gave in Texas the other day saying that the oil industry should take climate change more seriously, that oil could peak in the next decade, that the «social acceptance» for oil was disappearing, that there needed to be a meaningful tax on carbon emissions and that he «strongly supported» the Paris climate agreement?

Using recent data on the carbon - intensity of the economy and the overall tax take, I show that this cap constrains almost any climate policy in at least some countries.

[applause] And we pay for all of it by taking away tax breaks for oil companies and putting a price on carbon pollution - a step that will also reduce our carbon emissions 80 % by 2050.

Gore used to back this, before he took on the job of managing billions of investments in carbon trading firms whose net worth depends on a complex and politically manipulable cap and trade and offset schemes rather than a simple carbon tax.

CF's solution — this miracle — is to take the increasing carbon taxes that will be paid on top of bills, to subsidise the improvement of those 9.1 million households with 95 % of this revenue.

It took 1000 + pages to explain the carbon trading system in Waxman - Markey — I can explain this plan in two sentences: Institute a federal carbon excise tax on fuels whose rate increases with the carbon content per btu of the fuel.

So the Treasury will be taking # 57.4 billion in carbon taxes between 2015 and 2027, and CF want to spend 95 % of that (# 54.9 billion) on doing up poor people's houses, to save them # 200 a year on bills.

In March 1999, a comprehensive ecological tax reform law took effect in Germany that reduced income taxes, raised taxes on energy sources tied to carbon emissions, and exempted renewables.

Can we, should we, really rely on «taxes plus praying the innovative power of the market takes those price signals and makes us a carbon - free infrastructure?»

A debate is raging over whether the next president of United States (we've given up on this president taking action) should propose carbon taxes or cap and trade.

It's also a factor of our labour - intensive mining industry — the industry that will take a huge hit on its competitiveness from the carbon tax.

Stephen Dodge, a lobbyist for the Massachusetts division of the American Petroleum Institute, also disclosed taking «oppose» positions on the carbon tax bills.

A disclosure form filed by lobbyist William J. Coyne, Jr., shows that Coyne took «oppose» positions on both carbon tax bills on behalf of his «client» ExxonMobil (see here for an overview of Massachusetts lobbying law).

Even with no federal carbon tax and no infrastructure support from Congress and no enforcement of the CPP, which the Supreme Court put on hold in January, global markets are beginning to favor renewable energy — and governors in the Midwest are realizing they would be foolish not to take advantage.

Originally projected to take two years, the project targets mechanisms of the U.S. tax code in terms of its impact of its most critical provisions on carbon emissions and other greenhouse gases — a massive and complex campaign in environmental and economic modeling.

We are pleased to see a carbon tax in Governor Inslee «s budget because it is urgent that we take action on climate change to protect future generations.

Cap and trade may seem like the big offer on the emission reductions table at the moment — one mention of alternatives like a straight carbon tax send many people (the average American in particular) into apoplectic fits — but Annie «The Story of Stuff» Leonard wants you to take a closer look.There are so many troubling details in how cap and trade is currently proposed — free permit giveaways to polluters, massive potential for bogus offsetting projects, the ever - present potential of distracting us from making real changes — that we really need to consider other options.

We also have to take into account that the current EPA methodology is stricter than it was before, so today's MPGs are actually «worth more» than MPGs from many years ago, and finally, these types of changes are usually non-linear, so it's still possible for even more rapid improvements to take place (thanks to new technology, an oil shock, a carbon tax, economies of scales on plug - in vehicles, etc).

On the PBS New Hour (February 20, 2015), Brooks critiqued President Obama's State of the Union address as a missed opportunity to take a bold step by proposing a carbon tax.

Even with a small tax, carbon emissions would become an unpredictable variable cost, creating a large incentive to reconfigure production processes to reduce or eliminate them... Politicians frequently ignore the preferences of economists, since economists usually prefer a reduced role for the preferences of politicians... However, if serious action is to be taken on global warming, someone in the political class needs to start paying attention to them.

Pielke Jr provides additional moral cover by claiming that one (partial) solution, a carbon tax, can be taken off the table, not because it couldn't work but because it is unpopular (Pielke: «The evidence that a high carbon tax is politically infeasible seems irrefutable, based on experience and common sense.»).