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Posted by emilykawano on August 30th, 2011
By Heidi Garrett-Peltier, CPE Staff Economist
Environmental regulations are not “job-killers” after all.
GOP claims EPA costs jobs
Polluting industries, along with the legislators who are in their pockets, consistently claim that environmental regulation will be a “job killer.” They counter efforts to control pollution and to protect the environment by claiming that any such measures would increase costs and destroy jobs. But these are empty threats. In fact, the bulk of the evidence shows that environmental regulations do not [...] read more >
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Posted by tmasterson on May 8th, 2008
J.S. at Environmental Economics seems to think so. Maybe. According to a NY Times piece the bill
would revoke $17 billion in tax breaks extended to big oil companies like Exxon Mobil Corp and slap a 25 percent windfall profits tax on firms that don’t invest in new energy sources.
My question is: will the Democrats grow a spine in time to pass such a bill, even in the face of some opposition?
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Posted in Energy, Fiscal Policy, News, Politics, Taxes | 1 Comment »
Posted by jtellerelsberg on March 24th, 2008
BusinessWeek has a recent article about the new law requiring improvement in automobile and small truck fuel efficiency (“The Road to a Stronger CAFE Standard“). Among other things, the article describes how the law changes the way that the CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) measurement is calculated. Under the old CAFE calculation, fuel economy is measured separately for each auto manufacturer. Under the new calculation, all manufacturers will be measured together, and a trading scheme is established so that [...] read more >
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Posted in Consumption, Energy, Environment, News, Taxes | No Comments »
Posted by jtellerelsberg on February 15th, 2008
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Posted in Agriculture/Food, Economic Development, Energy, Environment, Gender, Globalization, Labor, News, Pop Culture, Social/Solidarity Economy | 1 Comment »
Posted by jtellerelsberg on January 18th, 2008
My day job is as an assistant editor at Chelsea Green Publishing. I’ve been particularly excited about one book that we’ve been working on, Peter Barnes’ Climate Solutions: A Citizen’s Guide: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why. Well, it’s just shipped from the printer, so now’s your chance to get a copy and check it out.
[update] I just came across a little BusinessWeek article focusing on Barnes’ ideas for a carbon dividend. They don’t get all the details [...] read more >
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Posted in Commons, Energy, Environment, Inequality, News, Politics | No Comments »
Posted by jtellerelsberg on October 31st, 2007
See the blog post I wrote for my employer’s website.
A friend of mine, who knows from my own previous email missives that there are important things afoot in Congress regarding pending legislation on global warming, forwarded me this message from MoveOn.org.
From: Ilyse Hogue, MoveOn.org Political Action
Sent: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:23 pm
Subject: Corporate windfall or clean energy economy
Click here to add your name: “Any climate legislation that gives “˜pollution credits’ away for free means windfall profits for big polluters. [...] read more >
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Posted by jtellerelsberg on October 24th, 2007
I’ve been writing posts recently advocating for a Sky Trust style program to
1) cap carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels
2) auction the permits within that cap
3) pay out revenue from the auction to each American on a per-person basis.
One thing I’ve wondered about is, “what will the impact be on people for reducing the availability of fossil fuels by the amount necessary to aggressively fight global warming?”
The first part of the answer is to see how much [...] read more >
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Posted in Commons, Consumption, Energy, Environment, News | 5 Comments »
