Sentences with phrase «ton tax on carbon»

The Shultz - Baker carbon tax proposal — outlining a $ 40 per ton tax on carbon dioxide emissions (to be collected at the refinery level or well, mine, or port), with revenue returned to the American public — has been hotly debated since it was released in early February.

Not exact matches

Clark and her government are totally manipulative as they dispense spin to a seemingly gullible public on how great they are for the environment - the current carbon tax of $ 30 a ton has remained frozen for years and recently they have approved a huge LNG project and will no doubt OK the Kinder Morgan pipeline - and there is pretty good chance the good citizens of this province will eat up all the propaganda and vote them back in!

Key finding: innovation + policy = economic growth A third scenario includes a $ 30 per ton price on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, redistributed to taxpayers through proportional tax payments.

Alberta will introduce a $ 15.25 per metric ton tax on 1 January 2017 (rising to $ 22.87 by 2018), but Premier Rachel Notley said in a statement that although the province supports the notion of national carbon pricing, it «will not be supporting this proposal absent serious concurrent progress on energy infrastructure, to ensure we have the economic means to fund these policies.»

He announced to the House of Commons that Ottawa will impose a $ 7.62 per metric ton minimum tax on carbon commencing in 2018, which will rise by $ 7.62 each year until it reaches $ 38.11 per metric ton in 2022.

«The break - even carbon tariff we calculated, which is at the range of $ 105 - 129 per ton of carbon dioxide, depending on the possible carbon tax to be imposed by these two regions in the near term, is close to the reported CO2 capture and sequestration cost,» You said.

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.

Start paying anyone who captures a ton of carbon the same bounty, paid for partly from the tax on carbon.

If gasoline taxes in Europe, which were designed to generate revenue and to discourage excessive dependence on imported oil, were thought of as a carbon tax, the $ 4.40 per gallon would translate into a carbon tax of $ 1,815 per ton.

A new report from the International Monetary Fund suggests that a carbon tax of $ 30 / ton of CO2 on offshore maritime and aviation emissions alone could generate $ 25 billion of revenue a year, while noting that national governments may have only weak claims to that revenue.

British Columbia inaugurated its carbon tax on July 1, 2008 at a rate of $ 10 (Canadian) per metric ton («tonne») of carbon dioxide released from coal, oil and natural gas burned in the province.

His proposal, introduced on Earth Day at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, would tax carbon dioxide and CO2 equivalents from methane and other sources at a rate of $ 30 per metric ton, increasing annually at 4 % above inflation.

In order to estimate the impact on the economy of the Clean Power Plan's regulatory scheme, based on an estimated SCC of $ 37 per ton, we have modeled the impact of an equivalent tax of $ 37 per ton carbon emissions [14] instituted in 2015 and increasing according to the EPA's annual estimates of the social cost of carbon.

The most straightforward form of carbon pricing is a carbon tax, which, in its simplest version, imposes a fee on every ton of carbon that enters the economy («upstream,» on fossil fuel producers and importers, as opposed to «downstream,» on fossil fuel consumers).

Apply a gradually increasing annual tax on carbon wherever it is mined, pumped, or imported into the United States - initially, at $ 10 / ton.

While James and Matt are right on target and illuminate the issues related to the value of running the «marathon» rather than «sprint,» unless Senator Whitehouse has overwhelming support for a $ 42 price per ton of CO2, which I doubt he does, it seems like a good strategy to let him bargain high and hard to push for that price and let those who oppose a high price «win» a lower price, since that's what we think will establish a more effective long term carbon tax.

From the article: «The tax, which rose from 10 Canadian dollars per ton of carbon dioxide in 2008 to 30 dollars by 2012, the equivalent of about $ 22.20 in current United States dollars, reduced emissions by 5 to 15 percent with «negligible effects on aggregate economic performance,» according to a study last year by economists at Duke University and the University of Ottawa.»

On Sunday, the best climate policy in the world got even better: British Columbia's carbon tax — a tax on the carbon content of all fossil fuels burned in the province — increased from $ 25 to $ 30 per metric ton of carbon dioxide, making it more expensive to pollutOn Sunday, the best climate policy in the world got even better: British Columbia's carbon tax — a tax on the carbon content of all fossil fuels burned in the province — increased from $ 25 to $ 30 per metric ton of carbon dioxide, making it more expensive to polluton the carbon content of all fossil fuels burned in the province — increased from $ 25 to $ 30 per metric ton of carbon dioxide, making it more expensive to pollute.

«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.

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.

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.

The November 8 election also saw the defeat of an initiative in Washington State that would have imposed the nation's first revenue - neutral carbon tax, assessing a $ 25 - per - ton fee on carbon dioxide emitted in the electricity, transportation, and other sectors and then using that revenue to reduce the state sales tax.

Canadians should measure proposal like Redford's «40:40» — referring to a 40 per cent cut in the carbon - emission limit and a $ 40 - per - ton tax on production above that limit — by whether overall emissions will actually stop growing.

[On the level of the carbon tax, Jiang Kejun of the ERI has suggested a tax of 10 to 20 yuan (about US$ 1.50 to 3) per metric ton of carbon dioxide that gradually rises to 300 to 400 yuan per metric ton.]

House Democrats released a «discussion draft» of carbon tax legislation Tuesday and requested feedback on whether pricing per ton of carbon should result in a $ 15, $ 25, or $ 35 tax, as well as whether the price per ton annual increase

The way I see it, the government would only establish a «Department of Carbon Signatures», populate it with a herd of SES / GS -15 / 14 chiefs (and a horde of minions for them to chief over), monitor my «carbon signature», and tax me on it at a rate of $ 18 / ton if the Carbon Signature Threat was dire.

Early studies by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimated that a carbon tax of up to $ 80 per metric ton of emissions — a tax that might raise gasoline prices by 70 cents a gallon — would eventually result in climate stability.

Heritage assumes that these programs, all told, will impose the equivalent of a $ 36 per ton carbon tax on the economy because that's the administration's estimate of the social cost of carbon in 2015 using a 3 percent discount rate for future damages.

OT, but CA readers may be interested in my new blog post proposing a $ 6.50 / ton carbon tax, in exchange for elimination of EPA restrictions on C, «the Carbon Tax: Welfare Triangle or Welfare Obelisk?&raqtax, in exchange for elimination of EPA restrictions on C, «the Carbon Tax: Welfare Triangle or Welfare Obelisk?&raqTax: Welfare Triangle or Welfare Obelisk?»

I would suggest a carbon tax of $ 25 - $ 40 / ton of CO2, increasing annually by $ 1 per ton for the next 100 years, would show real courage and leadership, and shame those European blowhards who have little but the hot air of their own speeches to show for a decade of so - called leadership on this issue.

A $ 40 tax on every ton of carbon would give a family of four $ 2,000 a year, in the form of checks, or deposits to bank or retirement accounts, according to the plan.