Tag: Carbon pricing
What is the ‘social cost of carbon’?
From the Wire February 13, 2022
2 energy experts explain after court ruling blocks Biden’s changes by Jim Krane, Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University and Mark Finley, Rice University When an electric company runs a coal- or natural gas-fired power…
The climate solution actually adding millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere
From the Wire April 29, 2021
New research shows that California’s climate policy created up to 39 million carbon credits that aren’t achieving real carbon savings. But companies can buy these forest offsets to justify polluting more anyway. by Lisa Song, ProPublica,…
A Message to Senate Democrats: Tribal Lands Are Not Carbon Dumping Grounds
From the Wire September 4, 2020
Targeting Native nations with carbon pricing projects that would disproportionately increase wealth and accumulation for the largest petroleum and mineral polluters at the expense of Native lives is unforgivable and horrifying. by Tom Goldtooth Friday, September…
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