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Tag: Cap and Trade

  • A refreshing dose of honesty (Global Warming Legislation)

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    Economist: A refreshing dose of honesty Maria Cantwell and the politics of global warming. … Enter Maria Cantwell, the junior senator from Washington state. She is pushing a simpler, more voter-friendly version of cap-and-trade, called “cap-and-dividend”. Under her bill, the government would impose a ceiling on carbon emissions each year. Producers and importers of fossil…

  • Then and Now (Cap and Trade)

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    Greg Mankiw's Blog: Then and Now From a Obama-Biden campaign position paper: Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s cap-and-trade system will require all pollution credits to be auctioned. A 100 percent auction ensures that all large corporate polluters pay for every ton of emissions they release, rather than giving these emission rights away for free to…

  • A Better Way Than Cap and Trade

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    Washington Post: A Better Way Than Cap and Trade Bjorn Lomborg …Politicians favor the cap-and-trade system because it is an indirect tax that disguises the true costs of reducing carbon emissions. It also gives lawmakers an opportunity to control the number and distribution of emissions allowances, and the flow of billions of dollars of subsidies and…