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NEWS ABOUT: carbon taxes

carbon taxes stories: 7 news summaries
Thomas Friedman

Carbon-Tax Foes Must Think the End Is Nigh

How else to explain them being OK with the exploding population?

Nov 18, 09 8:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Opponents of cap-and-trade legislation must believe that a massive plague will wipe out 2.5 billion people sometime between now and 2050. Otherwise, their stance makes no sense, writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times . Even if you don’t believe climate change is real—and Friedman does—... More »

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climate change • environment • cap and trade • Thomas Friedman • petrodollar • overpopulation • climate change legislation • carbon taxes • population growth

Energy Lobby Split on Climate, Thrilling Greens

Natural gas companies squabble with Big Oil as Senate negotiates

Oct 19, 09 6:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the Senate set to consider legislation to tax carbon and rein in global warming, a split has emerged among the energy lobby that may make it easier to pass a clean-energy law. Natural gas producers favor a bill, while their colleagues in the oil industry oppose it; electric companies... More »

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oil • coal • Senate • renewable energy • natural gas • carbon taxes • oil industry • Waxman-Markey

 Gore Throws 
 Weight Behind 
 Climate Bill 

Former VP dials Congressional Dems to rally support

May 21, 09 9:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - With controversial cap-and-trade climate legislation now in committee, former vice president Al Gore has mobilized his lobbying organization and grass-roots movement behind the bill, even calling some wavering Democrats personally, Politico reports. While some groups feel the measure is too soft on polluting industries, the Nobel Prize winner supports its... More »

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climate change • Al Gore • cap and trade • Nobel Prize • carbon taxes • carbon emissions

OPINION

Obama's Energy Policy Needs
a Tuneup

To garner support, simplify plan and focus message: Friedman

Apr 8, 09 9:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Proponents of cap-and-trade, the climate policy Democrats are currently championing, argue that it “'hides the ball'—it doesn’t use the word 'tax'—even though it amounts to one," writes Thomas Friedman in the New York Times. There’s just one problem: “Opponents are not playing... More »

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climate change • Barack Obama • environment • cap and trade • Thomas Friedman • carbon taxes • carbon caps

(Newser) - The key issue behind both the global economic and climate crises is exactly the same: “mispricing risk,” Thomas L. Friedman writes in the New York Times. “We have been mispricing risk in both arenas,” he contends, “producing a huge excess of both toxic assets... More »

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climate change • environment • global economy • Thomas Friedman • carbon taxes • financial crisis • economic downturn

OPINION

Nader: Obama Should Pitch
a Worldwide Carbon Tax

Because China won't agree to a cap-and-trade

Dec 3, 08 12:26 PM CST
(Newser) - The cap-and-trade system Barack Obama favors to deal with climate change won’t work, Ralph Nader and Toby Heaps write in the Wall Street Journal, and it’ll lead to “trade anarchy.” Any unilateral action we take must be global; otherwise, companies will simply relocate, taking jobs... More »

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China • climate change • cap and trade • Ralph Nader • carbon taxes • President Obama

Newt Argues a Conservative Green Plan

He debates critics in TNR over how to
spark fuel innovation

Jan 30, 08 9:07 PM CST
(Newser) - Newt Gingrich has triggered a debate in the New Republic over how to inspire eco-friendly fuel innovation. He argues that tax breaks and a billion-dollar prize can spark green entrepreneurs to usurp the "oligarchies and dictatorships" that control US oil dependence. But a pair of eco-authors wants more, and... More »

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climate change • Newt Gingrich • carbon taxes • trial lawyers

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