November 15th, 2012

A carbon tax. The idea has been out there for decades now, proposed by environmentalists as a way for fossil fuel industries to pay for their pollution and reduce the carbon emissions forcing climate change.

Soon, however, the concept of the carbon tax could have some new adherents.

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October 11th, 2012

Norway has announced plans to nearly double its carbon tax on the nation’s offshore petroleum sector to create a £1 billion fund to help combat the effects of climate change, including in developing nations. In a draft budget released this week, gov…

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October 2nd, 2012

Beyond that brief mention at the Republican Convention when Mitt Romney won a laugh for quipping that Obama had promised to keep the oceans from rising, it’s impossible to name one other time when climate change dominated even 15 minutes of the daily election news cycle this past year.

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April 26th, 2010

Climate activist James Hansen is urging the public and Congress to reject the “smoke and mirrors” of energy bills now pending in Congress and embrace a “simple, honest” carbon fee instead. Fees collected from fossil fuel-burning industries would help pay for their polluting emissions and could be redistributed to the public to help cover the cost of shifting from dirty to clean energy generation, Dr. Hansen told the crowd at Washington’s Earth Day Climate Rally on Sunday.

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April 8th, 2010

(This excerpt from Lester R. Brown’s book, was released this week. Plan B 4.0 offers ways to mitigate or stop climate change. Brown is president and founder of the Earth Policy Institute, and also the founder of Worldwatch Institute.) By Lester R. Brown As economic decisionmakers—whether consumers, corporate planners, government policymakers, or investment bankers—we all [...]

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