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Carbon tax

A Tesoro Corp. refinery, including a gas flare flame that is part of normal plant operations, in Anacortes, Washington.

Are carbon offsets really as effective as advocates claim?

Climate Change

More than 170 major companies have pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050, with many counting on carbon offsets and carbon trading programs to help them reach that goal. But critics say offsets are not nearly enough to address the danger to the planet from continually rising greenhouse gas emissions.

AOC Green New Deal

The Green New Deal doesn’t include carbon pricing. Some say that’s a big mistake.

Climate Change
Miami sunny day tidal flooding

Does a new GOP proposal to create a carbon tax have a chance?

Climate Change
Under a new carbon offset program that is gaining popularity in Congress, oil and gas companies — and other manufacturers of products involving — fossil fuel would have to pay $40 for every ton of carbon emitted into the atmosphere.

New carbon offset program may have the bipartisan support it needs on Capitol Hill

Politics
Airplane takeoff

Airlines embrace carbon reductions, but fear the Trump administration might get in their way

Environment
Paris climate conference

A group of GOP elder statesmen is pushing a conservative plan to address climate change

Economics

Conservatives say they could support a carbon tax if it also reduced EPA regulations and made payments to consumers to offset the costs. A new plan tries to give them what they want.

Former South Carolina congressman Bob Inglis says Donald Trump and his Republican party are "shrinking in science denial" on climate change because they don't like the solutions proposed by Democrats. But he says there's a simple conservative solution his

This Republican says his party’s denial of climate science is ‘courting disaster’ with voters

Environment

Donald Trump has famously dismissed concern about climate change as a hoax and a con job. And on that point, he’s well within the GOP mainstream, but a former GOP congressman says his party’s all wrong on the science, economics and politics of the climate threat.

A pipeline in Virginia

Change in climate and energy strategy is a key for the GOP’s road to the White House

Environment

Climate change has been a political hot potato for years. Conservatives have made it almost a religion to deny that it exists — or at least express grave skepticism. But one Republican politician says that needs to change for the party’s own good.

An oil refinery is pictured in the southern Sydney suburb of Kurnell. After the scrapping of Australia's carbon tax, companies will be allowed to voluntarily reduce emissions without requirements for reductions.

Australia and the UK roll back their environmental successes — big and small

Environment

In Australia, a two-year-old carbon tax is no more. In the United Kingdom, long-missing beavers have returned to the wild after centuries — but environmental officials want them gone.In Australia, a two-year-old carbon tax is no more. In the United Kingdom, long-missing beavers have returned to the wild after centuries — but environmental officials want them gone.

Earth weather predictions

How high would a carbon tax really have to be to rein in climate change?

Environment

A new report from the London School of Economics claims that the current economic model used to calculate an effective carbon tax underestimates the true cost of climate disruption.A new report from the London School of Economics claims that the current economic model used to calculate an effective carbon tax underestimates the true cost of climate disruption.