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.
A lot, if
taxes on carbon pollution rise briskly enough to have the needed climate impacts.
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.
It would create
a tax on carbon pollution but use the revenue to cut payroll or income taxes.
Inglis's «Raise Wages, Cut Carbon Act of 2009» proposed a rising
tax on carbon pollution.
The needed market corrective is huge and can come about only via a significant
tax on carbon pollution.
Congressional climate deniers need to accept the science and bolster the President's actions with
a tax on carbon pollution.
For years there's been talk of
a tax on carbon pollution as a way to fight global warming.
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.
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.
Not exact matches
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He cited Australia's Parliament, under a conservative coalition elected last year, which last week repealed a two - year - old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).