Environmental Economics

JANUARY 4, 2016

The key finding: there’s a strong consensus among climate economics experts that we should put a price on carbon pollution to curb the expensive costs of climate change. In other words, there is a 95% consensus among expert climate economists that the US should follow through with its pledges to cut carbon pollution in the wake of the Paris international climate negotiations, and more than three out of four agreed that the US should take action to curb global warming no matter what.

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Sightline Daily

MARCH 24, 2015

As the Carbon Pollution Accountability Act , now HB 1314 , wends its way through committee hearings, new economic analysis and revised revenue estimates are popping up. Less pollution, more clean energy, better schools, and more jobs. Assuming pollution prices start at $12.90

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Sierra Club Compass

JUNE 10, 2014

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick (Photo: Office of Governor Patrick)   From New Hampshire to California to Hawai’i to Montana, Governors across the country are applauding the Environmental Protection Agency’s first-ever standards to clean up climate disruption carbon pollution.

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Environmental Economics

JULY 18, 2014

In March 2012, the EPA announced a proposed carbon pollution standard for new power plants. No coal-fired units would come close to the emission targets unless there are future innovations in carbon capture and storage. Matthew J. Kotchen and Erin T. Mansur: In the absence of legislation for a US national climate policy, regulatory responsibility has fallen to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Sierra Club Compass

JULY 30, 2014

The EPA proposed these first-ever limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants just last month. crowds gathered to speak out in favor of the carbon pollution standard, packing the hearing all day. Hundreds and hundreds of people gathered in Washington, D.C.,

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Sierra Club Compass

JUNE 11, 2013

  On June 2nd, Goldman Sachs published a research report, titled "Getting Oil Out of Canada: Heavy Oil Diffs Expected to Stay Wide and Volatile," stating that without Keystone XL, tar sands expansion, and therefore the carbon pollution that comes with it, would be dramatically reduced.

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Sierra Club Compass

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

On Tuesday, the Sierra Club released a new poll with Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research showing that seven-in-ten Americans favor the Environmental Protection Agency putting limits on the amount of carbon pollution that power plants can release. Public hearing in Washington, D.C.,

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Sightline Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2014

A purely regulatory approach to cutting carbon is like Thanksgiving dinner without the turkey. Here’s how serving up a carbon price carefully paired with other policies makes for a delicious meal. The vertical axis shows the cost of cutting carbon pollution in dollars per ton.

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Sightline Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Have you ever tried to briefly explain to someone why we need to hold carbon polluters accountable? This is the first in a series of short videos about how the Pacific Northwest can use a carbon price to protect our communities and accelerate our transition to clean energy.

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Sightline Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2014

We at Sightline are always saying that a well-designed program can hold polluters accountable while transitioning the Pacific Northwest to a clean and prosperous future. Washington would cover almost all pollution right from the start. Who are the polluters?

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Celsias

JULY 2, 2012

federal appeals court upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2009 findings that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide from industry and vehicles endanger public health. On June 26, a U.S.

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Sierra Club Compass

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The following is testimony from Nick Mullins, a former coal miner from Virginia, given Thursday before the Environmental Protection Agency public hearing in Washington, DC, on carbon pollution standards.

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Sierra Club Compass

JUNE 9, 2014

The much-anticipated safeguards to clean up carbon pollution from existing power plants have finally been announced , and just as expected, both support and opposition for the protections is all over the airwaves. Similarly, the Los Angeles Times reported that Robert Flexon, CEO of Houston-based Dynegy viewed the carbon standards as an opportunity — not a threat.

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Conservancy Talk

JUNE 4, 2015

A hundred-million-year-old solution During my last few years working on low-carbon innovation in the energy sector, I was struck by the time, effort and many millions of dollars the industry was investing to explore how to engineer a way to capture and store CO2 deep below the earth’s surface.

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Sightline Daily

JUNE 15, 2015

You have seven minutes to tell Oregon legislators everything they need to know about stopping climate pollution. By the end of next year, one quarter of all the greenhouse gas pollution in the world will have a price tag attached. Making polluters pay will not hurt the economy.

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Conservancy Talk

JUNE 25, 2013

billion tons of CO2 annually — 40 percent of the nation’s carbon dioxide emissions. With domestic sources of low- and no-carbon energy becoming more abundant and less expensive, we have the opportunity to achieve substantial reductions in overall emissions at relatively low cost.

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Sierra Club Compass

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

In a deeply troubling decision  reported  this week, the World Trade Organization (WTO)  has issued a confidential ruling against  Ontario’s successful “feed-in tariff” incentives program that is designed to reduce carbon pollution and create clean energy jobs.

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Sierra Club Compass

JANUARY 8, 2014

Carbon pollution standards for new power plants published for public comment. Power plants are responsible for much of our country's air pollution. billion metric tons of carbon pollution, the main contributor to climate disruption.

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Environmental Economics

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Families face rising health care costs for asthma attacks and heart problems caused by runaway pollution. From the inbox (courtesy of my mother-in-law):  This is an excerpt from a Sierra Club email. I do take the source into consideration. But it does sound like your kind of thing.

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Environmental Economics

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Here is the article without all of the crazy political stuff: More than two dozen of the nation’s biggest corporations, including the five major oil companies, are planning their future growth on the expectation that the government will force them to pay a price for carbon pollution as a way to control global warming. Companies do not know what form a future carbon price would take. Coal, which produces twice the carbon pollution of natural gas, would be a loser.

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Sierra Club Compass

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Supreme Court denied legal petitions from polluters and states that challenged the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) historic finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. Climate change will only worsen that pollution. Today the U.S.

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Environmental Economics

MAY 22, 2017

Terry McAuliffe (D) signed an executive order on Tuesday directing regulators to formulate rules cracking down on electricity sector carbon emissions. The order requires state officials to convene a working group on carbon emissions and issue a report by the end of the year on potential regulations to limit power plant greenhouse gases.  Climate federalism: Virginia Gov.

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Environmental Economics

MARCH 15, 2013

Waxman, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Representative Earl Blumenauer, and Senator Brian Schatz released draft carbon-pricing legislation and solicited feedback on it from stakeholders and the public.  the price per ton should rise at the rate of the social cost of carbon.

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Help 2013 Carbon Pollution Consumer 190

Elephant Journal

JULY 3, 2014

Carbon pollution from Dirty Energy is creating a world of Dirty Weather. The science on climate change is settled. Together we can stop it. The Climate Reality Project is dedicated to unleashing a global cultural movement demanding action on the climate crisis.

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Sierra Club Compass

JUNE 13, 2013

In April, the Obama administration missed a key deadline for finalizing carbon pollution standards from new power plants. These first-ever standards would assure that new power plants not be built unless they could control and significantly limit their carbon pollution.

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Wend Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

From Grist: Tea Party-backing Koch Industries is major carbon polluter. If only this group of angry shouters weren’t puppets in a larger game. More on what’s behind the Tea Party. From Open Secrets: Oil and Gas–Influence and Lobbying.

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Environmental Economics

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

RFF on the issues: On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court granted a stay blocking the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring states to submit plans for major reductions in carbon emissions from electric power plants. The stay marks a setback for President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which aims to reduce carbon pollution from the power sector by 30 percent from 2005 levels.

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Environmental Economics

JUNE 2, 2014

Just the word "cap-and-trade" gives me goosebumps: The Obama administration on Monday will announce one of the strongest actions ever taken by the United States government to fight climate change, a proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulation to cut carbon pollution from the nation’s power plants 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, according to people briefed on the plan who spoke anonymously because they had been asked not to reveal details.

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Eccorazzi

AUGUST 21, 2014

Leonardo DiCaprio has more than a few choice words for the federal government when it comes to carbon pollution in the new documentary, "Carbon."

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Environmental Economics

JULY 29, 2013

Over the past several decades, power plants have curtailed their emissions of harmful pollutants, such as sulfur dioxide, soot and mercury. But power plants have continued to pump unlimited amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, with disastrous consequences.

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Environmental Economics

JUNE 23, 2015

A revenue neutral carbon tax is what you would call a "conservative" economic proposal : Two Senate Democrats sponsored a bill Wednesday to institute an economy-wide tax on carbon dioxide emissions, revenue that would be returned through rebates and tax cuts.   The tax would be charged at $45 per ton of carbon dioxide or equivalent greenhouse gases for coal, oil, natural gas and other hydrocarbons, collected at the place where it is produced or refined.

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Sierra Club Compass

JUNE 12, 2014

These standards will cut carbon pollution, reduce oil use, and save drivers money at the pump. million barrels of fuel each day, resulting in 530 million metric tons of carbon pollution.

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Sierra Club Compass

MAY 5, 2014

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) are beginning the process of setting the next round of standards to reduce carbon pollution and fuel use from medium and heavy-duty vehicles (everything from delivery trucks to 18-wheelers).

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Sierra Club Compass

JUNE 2, 2014

These standards won''t just take a big bite out of climate disruption, they’ll also help us tackle other serious power plant pollution that threatens our health, air and water - pollutants including soot, smog, and mercury.

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Sierra Club Compass

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

carbon pollution nearly 10 percent. These truck standards are another step to slash oil use, save Americans money and bring down carbon pollution. When we’re smarter about what we ship and how we ship it, we save money and reduce carbon pollution.

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Nature Conservancy - Science

MARCH 20, 2015

By Peter Ellis, Forest Carbon Scientist. Intact forests are likely reaching a “steady state” where they can no longer compensate for our atmospheric carbon pollution. We’ve long appreciated the important role forests play in the global carbon cycle.

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Environmental Economics

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

2 carbon polluters, is viewed as essential to concluding a new global accord. As part of the agreement, Mr. Obama announced that the United States would emit 26 percent to 28 percent less carbon in 2025 than it did in 2005. China’s pledge to reach peak carbon emissions by 2030, if not sooner, is even more remarkable. Another thing on my "to do" list: A climate deal between China and the United States, the world’s No. 1 and No.

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Environmental Economics

MAY 8, 2013

That solution would be making polluters pay: putting a price on carbon dioxide through a direct cap or tax on carbon pollution. It’s quite a leap from plastic bags to carbon prices. Similarly, increase the price of carbon, watch carbon pollution fall.

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Plastic Bags Plastics 2013 Carbon Pollution 169

Sierra Club Compass

JULY 23, 2014

Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed the first-ever national standard to clean up carbon pollution from power plants. It creates a framework that, once in place, could mean significant reductions in carbon pollution.

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Environmental Economics

MAY 7, 2014

Coal’s status as a major source of carbon pollution linked to climate change persuaded the trustees to remove companies “whose principal business is coal” from their investment portfolio, the university said.  With campuses around the world : Stanford University announced Tuesday that it would divest its $18.7

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Environmental Economics

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Imposing an explicit cost on carbon pollution is the best way to put countries on a path toward steep emissions cuts, according to new research by the multilateral Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Thank goodness for this new report from the OECD.

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Eccorazzi

JUNE 2, 2014

Obama seeks to limit carbon pollution from existing power plants as a way to improve the health and well-being of children. Read More The post WATCH: Obama Wants to Clean Up Planet for Kid’s Health appeared first on Ecorazzi. Causes Environment Healthy Living News Science Top News barack obama

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Sierra Club Compass

JULY 30, 2014

Summer is especially difficult for these kids and other vulnerable people -- including seniors and people with respiratory disease -- because the hotter temperatures lead to more smog, one of the most dangerous forms of air pollution.

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