Sentences with phrase «tax on emissions of greenhouse gases»

George C. Marshall Institute (5/3/13) reports: «The year 2013 will see a major political debate over proposals for a carbon tax — a tax on emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), particularly carbon -LSB-...]

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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.

She imposed a five - year freeze on the carbon tax, refuses to use carbon tax revenue to fund climate solutions, exempted the LNG industry from calculating greenhouse gas emissions on 70 per cent of its operations, cancelled a home retrofit program, and derailed public transit expansion plans with a built - to - fail referendum.

«Globally, beef production can be taxing on the environment, leading to high greenhouse gas emissions and land degradation,» said Jason Rowntree, MSU associate professor of animal science, who led the study.

In response to a tax on greenhouse - gas emissions imposed by the Norwegian government, each year the company now removes about 1 million tons of CO2 captured as a waste product from the natural gas it recovers and pumps more than 99 percent of it 2,600 feet beneath the seafloor into a porous sandstone formation capped by impervious rock.

In his book, Lomborg proposes that a modest carbon tax could pay for all of this work at a fraction the cost of a cap on emissions of greenhouse gases, the approach pursued by Europe under the Kyoto Protocol (and rejected in the United States).

His critics show few signs of ever accommodating the ideas he now presses, which include a prompt moratorium on new coal - burning power plants until they can capture and store carbon dioxide and a rising tax on fuels contributing greenhouse - gas emissions, with the revenue passed back directly to citizens, avoiding the complexities of «cap and trade» bills.

In a wide - ranging December 2013 study, conducted to support Our Children's Trust, a group advancing legal challenges to lax greenhouse gas emissions policies on behalf of minors, Hansen called for a «human tipping point» — essentially, a social revolution — as one of the most effective ways of combating climate change, though he still favors a bilateral carbon tax agreed upon by the United States and China as the best near - term climate policy.

The National Academy of Sciences specifically called for a carbon tax on fossil fuels or a cap - and - trade system for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, calling global warming an urgent threat.

With their massive business interests» billions of profits dependent on oil, the Kochs have been heavily motivated to block any regulations on greenhouse gas emissions and tax credits for alternative energy, and to assist with Heartland with its anti-climate agenda.

Recent polls show a solid majority of Americans reject the man - made global - warming theory pushed by Obama, the UN, and other governments desperate to impose new taxes and regulations on CO2 — a natural gas exhaled by humans and required for plants, human emissions of which make up a fraction of one percent of all the greenhouse gases present naturally in the atmosphere.

Then - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was pushing for a carbon cap - and - trade program; still, the law's language allowed the ARB to consider a variety of methods for regulating greenhouse gas emissions, including a tax or fee on carbon dioxide.

introduced the «Managed Carbon Price Act of 2012» (MCP), a bill imposing a tax on carbon dioxide - equivalent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from producers of coal, oil, and natural gas, refineries, and other covered sources.

The specific actions that I opposed in my essay were: (1) a cap - and - trade system for carbon emissions, (2) a carbon tax, and (3) $ 5 trillion of U.S. government spending between now and 2100 on technology designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

A carbon tax set at $ 40 per ton would achieve substantially greater reduction in greenhouse - gas emissions than all of the regulation now on the table.

Putting a price on carbon, in the form of a fee or tax on the producers of fossil fuels, can be an effective way to curb emissions of greenhouse gases.

This act expires if either a statewide law places a charge, tax, or cap on the level of carbon emissions within the state, or an initiative by the people places a charge, tax, or cap on greenhouse gas emissions that is broadly imposed on persons subject to the carbon tax in this act.

, the Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from using the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and thereby put a potentially huge indirect tax on American consumers and businesses.

AUSTRALIANS have turned on the carbon tax, with almost two - thirds of people opposed to pricing greenhouse gas emissions and an overwhelming majority backing Coalition plans to unravel the policy.

For example, a carbon tax designed to smoothly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions from their current level to zero by the year 2100 would result in only about 0.1 °C of global temperature «savings» — an amount, on its own, not worth pursuing.

The committee will first determine the most appropriate analytical framework and methodology to use in examining the effects of the tax code on greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

A Price on Carbon: The most effective way to spur this kind of change, the report said, would be to impose a price on greenhouse gas emissions, such as a carbon tax.

Coal is still the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions, so the cap on the energy sector will matter most, but still, I'm not sure how K - G - L, or Keggles, could possibly plan on tackling the oil industry without either a cap on its emissions or a tax.

This website is the first step towards our goal of bringing together on one site all of the publicly - available data on: CO2 emissions; Other sources of greenhouse gases (GHG) and GHG sinks; Energy production and consumption; Energy investment, prices and taxes; Socio - economic benchmarks & drivers.

According to a new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, «Economic Assessment of Biofuel Support Policies», not only is public support of biofuels costly it has little impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions: All the tax incentives, blending targets and other public support policies in the EU, US, and Canada total $ 25 billion per year, but will ultimately result in less than a 1 % reduction in emissions from transport by 2015.

New York City About Blog The Carbon Tax Center («CTC») was launched in January 2007 to give voice to Americans who believe that taxing emissions of carbon dioxide along with commensurate taxes on methane and other greenhouse gases is imperative to reduce global warming.