Sentences with phrase «tax on carbon pollution»

Exxon Mobil Corp., a favorite target of global warming activists, said Wednesday that it's hopeful for a deal out of the climate - change talks in Paris and still thinks the best solution is a tax on carbon pollution.

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.

For years there's been talk of a tax on carbon pollution as a way to fight global warming.

Congressional climate deniers need to accept the science and bolster the President's actions with a tax on carbon pollution.

The needed market corrective is huge and can come about only via a significant tax on carbon pollution.

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

It would create a tax on carbon pollution but use the revenue to cut payroll or income taxes.

U.S. carbon tax legislation should include border tax adjustments to help protect domestic industry from unfair competition and to tax imports of other nations until they enact their own taxes on carbon pollution.

A lot, if taxes on carbon pollution rise briskly enough to have the needed climate impacts.

Only taxes on carbon pollution from fossil fuels can create the clear, rapid, across - the - board incentives needed to propel a massive shift to clean alternatives.

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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.

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.

Specifically, the tax on power generation includes a fixed cost of $ 5 per ton of carbon dioxide, plus a variable tax based on the pollution and environmental damage to the community where the plant is located.

He cited Australia's Parliament, under a conservative coalition elected last year, which last week repealed a two - year - old tax on carbon dioxide emissions — the country's only legislated policy for reducing global warming pollution.

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.

Personally I think the idea of a carbon tax tends to focus too much on a single source of pollution rather than the broad range of environmental toxins that are polluting our environment.

And most important of all, we need to put a price on carbon — with a CO2 tax that is then rebated back to the people, progressively, according to the laws of each nation, in ways that shift the burden of taxation from employment to pollution.

With their unequivocal endorsement of carbon taxes, Legarde and Lee add to the pressure on UN climate negotiators to end two decades of fruitless haggling over national level emissions limits and to focus explicitly on pricing carbon pollution instead.

Climate activists are urging a carbon tax on shipping and aviation not only to spur reductions in climate pollution but as a revenue source to finance global climate mitigation.

ACT NOW Virtual Lobby Day on June 15 will demonstrate voter support for a carbon tax to reduce carbon pollution that causes climate change and fund the state's biennial budget.

In addition to its carbon tax, which has been in place since 2008, in 2016, British Columbia put a limit and price on pollution from industrial facilities (especially targeting coal - fired power plants and liquefied natural gas facilities).

Sections 243.1 - 243.4 of Article 243 of the Code, specifically: rate of the tax due on emissions of certain pollutants into the atmospheric air, caused by stationary sources of pollution; rates of the tax due on stationary sources» emissions into the atmospheric air of pollutants (compounds), which are not listed in Section 243.1 of this Article and are falling within a certain substance hazard category (except for carbon dioxide), shall be applicable subject to determined approximately safe impact levels of such substances» (compounds») impact on the atmospheric air of urban settlements; and rates of tax due on emissions of carbon dioxide

However, Connie Hedegaard, the Danish minister for climate and energy, told the Associated Press the most workable solution would be global limits on the pollution blamed for global warming, rather than an outright tax on carbon dioxide and other major industrial warming gases.

[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.

«Washington's Initiative - 732 would make a bad thing — pollution — more expensive by putting a tax on each ton of carbon dioxide created by cars, power plants and the like.

On the other hand, a carbon tax helps expand the clean - energy economy while cutting pollution - related costs paid by everyone.

In contrast, as Hsu shows, a carbon pollution tax's laser focus on CO2 pollution creates incentives for all low - carbon alternatives, leaving specific technology decisions to engineers rather than politicians.

A [carbon] tax, by imposing a cost on every single ton of pollutant, constantly engages the polluter with the task of reducing her pollution tax bill.

But on climate change we agree: Taxing the sources of carbon pollution is a pragmatic, bipartisan, common - sense solution.»

The revenue could come either from auctioning pollution permits, a «wires fee» on electricity use, a modest tax on carbon, or a mix of all three.

Shifting the tax burden to pollution and pollution - generating activities will create powerful incentives to use less energy and emit less CO2 into the atmosphere while simultaneously promoting tax equity and minimizing the impact of the carbon tax on those with lower incomes.

I - 732 uses the revenue from the carbon tax on pollution to reduce the sales tax by a full percent.

These equity concerns include: the regressive impact of potential energy price increases on low - income households; the potential for carbon pricing policies to allow some fossil fuel - fired power plants or refineries to continue to operate and emit air and water pollutants in neighborhoods already burdened by pollution; and the economic hardship to workers and communities dependent on fossil fuel industries for livelihoods or for their tax base as we transition away from these resources.

Regrettably, the lawmakers missed out on an opportunity to strengthen the polluter pays principle through a carbon border tax on cement imports and an end to free pollution permits...

A whole good idea would be to make a payroll - tax holiday the first step in an orderly transition to scrapping the payroll tax altogether and replacing the lost revenue with a package of levies on things that, unlike jobs, we want less rather than more of — things like pollution, carbon emissions, oil imports, inefficient use of energy and natural resources, and excessive consumption.

In the U.S., neither a carbon tax nor a cap - and - trade system to put a price on carbon pollution is under serious consideration; in contrast, China's carbon - trading program, which includes more than 2,000 pollution sources, is the second - largest trading system in the world (after the EU's).

In «Make a carbon tax part of reform effort» (Concord Monitor, 9/19/11), Holtz - Eakin argues for comprehensive tax reform to include a carbon tax so that more of the «true cost of burning a fossil fuel... in the form of air pollution, a negative impact on human health, harm to the environment or climate change [is a] component in economic decisions [such as] include whether to invest in a coal - fired power plant or a wind farm.»

Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.

«Fossil fuel subsidies work against Canada's commendable progress in putting a price on carbon — they give money and tax breaks to the sources of carbon pollution that we're trying to scale back,» Amin Asadollahi, North American Lead on Climate Change Mitigation at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, said.

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).