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In the news
CO2 infographic BC audit of carbon-neutral government. See also criticism. And here’s a BC carbon tax proposal infographic. Carbon tax study bill. Here’s the bill itself. And here’s a news article. A Hot Topic: Climate Change Coming To Classrooms How To Fix the Washington Transportation Package by Yoram and Clark Call for Abstracts: Economics of [...]
First draft of Part One of Cartoon Climate Change
Here’s a very rough draft of Part One of The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change, both as a 1-to-a-page PDF and as 2-page spreads. (For cartoon books, the fundamental unit is not the individual page but the 2-page spread.) Comments are welcome via email or inserted into the PDF or (best of all) on the [...]
Everett Herald carbon tax editorial
A great Everett Herald editorial: It’s time for a carbon tax Sightline’s Talking Carbon Taxes, Free-Enterprise Style In transportation news, a modest transportation bill is heading for the Governor’s desk: “Lawmakers are leaving aside for now the more contentious question of a transportation revenue package that would augment the budget. That debate is set to [...]
Everett Herald editorial and other news
It’s time for a carbon tax Fueling Up for the Long Haul: natural gas use in trucking David Crowe: Gasaholic Pollution Is Radically Changing Childhood in China’s Cities In Europe, Paid Permits for Pollution Are Fizzling Three issues to watch in Oregon’s carbon tax debate and A smarter tax for Oregon, by Tom Potiowsky, Northwest [...]
Sierra Club support, new revenue-neutral draft, and other developments
Some good developments! Last week I was invited to talk carbon taxes with the Conservation Committee of the Cascade Chapter of the Sierra Club. The idea of a revenue-neutral carbon tax received a vote of support (unanimous, if I recall correctly) and a task force was created to come up with recommendations for getting a [...]
If carbon taxes are so great…
A good question on Friday from a student at Westminster College: If revenue-neutral carbon taxes are such a great idea, why has only British Columbia adopted this policy? I gave what I thought was a decent answer in class, but wanted to put some more thoughts down in writing: 1) People prefer the devil they [...]
Cartoon Micro at Cité des Sciences museum in Paris
Check out these images from the new exhibit (“L’économie: Krach, Boom, Mue?”) at the Cité des Sciences museum in Paris… now through Jan 5 2014! Congratulations and many thanks to Judith Guitteny and her colleagues at Cité des Sciences, and to TSE economist Christophe Bontemps, who translated the French edition of Cartoon Micro.
Recipe for cooking the books on carbon taxes
The National Association of Manufacturers just released a scathing report on carbon taxes (the full report was produced—unfortunately—with the assistance of my friends at NERA), but in reality all their analysis shows is that paying down the Federal debt is the poison pill of economic policy: as long as the economy is struggling to recover, [...]
Carbon tax progress in Oregon and Washington
Preface: I’ve got some talks and comedy shows coming up this week in eastern Washington (Twisp, Omak, Ellensburg, Moses Lake, Walla Walla) so if you’re in that neighborhood check out the details. Amazing news continues to pour in from Oregon, where the Northwest Economic Research Center at PSU released a report on Carbon Tax and [...]
In the news
Carbon cycle graphs: IPCC, NOAA, NASA via GSU. Financial Times editorial: A least-worst tax: A levy on carbon is an idea whose time has come Climate change a top concern for Gov. Inslee An Energy Coup for Japan: ‘Flammable Ice’ Australia’s cotton-wool wrecking ball (carbon tax is doing great!) How to Open Your car2go’s Trunk [...]
