aggregated from: Cascadia Prospectus

Blogging from Kabul, Seattle Times reporter Hal Bernton is struck by how the post-Taliban proliferation of private vehicles has boosted smog and air pollution, threatening public health. Now picture the possibilities in places such as China and India...

topics: carbon-tax, climate-change, economy, emissions, environment

aggregated from: Cascadia Prospectus

Blogging from Kabul, Seattle Times reporter Hal Bernton is struck by how the post-Taliban proliferation of private vehicles has boosted smog and air pollution, threatening public health. Now picture the possibilities in places such as China and India...

topics: carbon-tax, climate-change, economy, emissions, environment

aggregated from: Slog

Wild-eyed French socialists announce a new carbon tax.France's Le Monde newspaper says the tax will cover 70% of the country's carbon emissions and bring in about 4.3bn euros ( 3.8bn) of revenue annually. Suggesting that we do the same is now offici...

topics: carbon-tax, emissions, tax

aggregated from: Cascadia Prospectus

Like July waters in an Alpine lake, reactions continue to accumulate to the U.S. House's passage of the 1,201-page Waxman-Markey climate legislation. The reviews are mixed. In the Los Angeles Times, Todd Darling writes:The bill...proposes a market-ba...

topics: carbon-tax, development, emissions, environment, global-warming

aggregated from: Sound Politics

In a June 30, 2009 Seattle Times opinion piece, Seattle economist Bruce Flory and Todd Myers from the Washington Policy Council proposed replacing the state property tax with a carbon tax. Such a tax would reduce the use of carbon-based......

aggregated from: Cascadia Prospectus

During his successful campaign for the presidency, Barack Obama embraced the cause of surface transportation, arguing with gusto for improvements to inter-city high speed rail, for research and development to advance the mainstream adoption of altern...

topics: carbon-tax, development, economy, tax, taxes

aggregated from: Cascadia Prospectus

The massively-hyped federal economic stimulus package isn't looking like it will do all that much for surface transportation. The New York Times reports that the House stimulus bill contains a measly $30 billions for roads and bridges and $10 billion...

topics: budget, carbon-tax, climate-change, development, ferries

aggregated from: Cascadia Prospectus

The much-hyped federal economic stimulus package isn't looking like it will do all that much for surface transportation. The New York Times reports that the House stimulus bill contains a scant $30 billion for roads and bridges and $10 billion for tr...

topics: budget, carbon-tax, climate-change, development, ferries

aggregated from: Energy: Strategies, Policy & Best Practices fo

Of the two methods widely discussed for pricing carbon -- cap and trade, and a carbon tax, which is better? Q&A with Tufts University economist Gilbert Metcalf....

topics: carbon-tax, tax

aggregated from: Cascadia Prospectus

I had a telling conversation with an old friend several months ago, a devoted environmentalist who's a community college biology teacher living south of San Francisco in a pleasant small town abutting the Pacific. I don't recall how it came up, but s...

topics: budget, carbon-tax, costco, developers, development