Energy implications of Biden’s latest Cabinet picks
President-elect Joe Biden's final burst of Cabinet picks could have important roles to play in the new administration's climate change and energy agenda.
Europe’s carbon border tax puts pressure on U.S. to enact carbon price
President-elect Joe Biden comes into office with an ambitious agenda to tackle climate change. How much of that agenda is achievable, however, depends on the...Bag the Carbon Calculators. You Didn’t Cause This.
It’s here that British Petroleum, or BP, first promoted and soon successfully popularized the term “carbon footprint” in the early aughts. The company unveiled its...
In contentious vote, Pennsylvania takes formal step towards joining regional cap and trade market
The Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (EQB) on Tuesday voted 13-6 to launch a formal rulemaking process required for the state to join the Regional Greenhouse...
Behavioral Contagion Could Spread the Benefits of a Carbon Tax
The United States has been stalled in its approach to climate change, and with attention so heavily focused on the coronavirus pandemic, this may seem...
A simpler, more useful way to tax carbon
A new proposal for how carbon taxes can play well with other policies. For most of the 21st century, putting a price on carbon dioxide...
How to drive fossil fuels out of the US economy, quickly
The US has everything it needs to decarbonize by 2035.
Carbon pricing isn’t just blowing smoke
The largest study on the topic to date demonstrates that the higher a country’s carbon price, the more it reduces emissions.