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Note to Environmentalists: Economists are on your side

April 12, 2010 by Tim Haab
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There is a tendency among some environmental writers to dismiss “classical”, “traditional”, “neoliberal”, or “mainstream” economics as somehow inimical to environmental interests. The problem is that more often than not these writers get the facts wrong. It’s almost as if the knee-jerk aversion to economics that exists among many... [read more]

Energy and Financial Interests Pushing Offsets in Senate Climate Bill

March 17, 2010 by Breakthrough Institute
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Polluting energy companies and giant financial firms are once again allying to advance international offsets that have the potential to render a carbon cap entirely non-binding. The Coalition for Emissions Reductions Projects (CERP), wrote to Senator Maria Cantwell earlier this month criticizing the CLEAR Act she co-sponsored with... [read more]

U.S. Senate may scrap Cap and Trade in exchange for Cap and Dividend

February 27, 2010 by ChrisSchultz
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I may have spoke too soon the other day. It seems that a few Republicans in the Senate are not only on board with Cap and Trade but could be willing to support a Cap and Dividend model as the centerpiece of the climate change legislation that the House of Representatives passed last year. I've been a fan of Cap and Dividend since I... [read more]

Analysis of Cantwell-Collins CLEAR Climate Bill: Full Breakthrough Institute Collection

February 26, 2010 by Breakthrough Institute
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For Breakthrough's analysis of the House's Waxman-Markey ACES climate bill, see here. For Breakthrough's analysis of the Senate's Kerry-Boxer CEJAPA climate bill, see here. This post summarizes the Breakthrough Institute's analysis of the Cantwell-Collins "Carbon Limits and Energy for America's Renewal" Act (S.2877, known as CLEAR... [read more]

Any Hope for Meaningful U.S. Climate Policy? A Somewhat Positive View

February 8, 2010 by Robert Stavins
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The current conventional wisdom ­– broadly echoed by the news media and the blogosphere – is that comprehensive, economy-wide CO2 cap-and-trade legislation is dead in the current U.S. Congress, and perhaps for the next several years. Watch out for conventional wisdoms!  They inevitably appear to be the collective judgment... [read more]

Misguided “cap and divide” bill by Cantwell and Collins is neither politically nor environmentally viable

February 1, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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Climate politics can be very strange indeed.  Because cap-and-trade bills like Waxman-Markey are seen as having no chance of passing the Senate, some enviros appear to be shifting their support to bills that are politically even less attractive and environmentally even less adequate. The latest misguided missile is the Carbon... [read more]

A CLEAR Look at the Cantwell-Collins Climate Bill, Part 2: Structural Advantages

January 13, 2010 by Jesse Jenkins
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Originally posted at the Breakthrough Institute In Part 1 of our analysis of the new Cantwell-Collins CLEAR Act, we demonstrated how the bill fails to make the investments needed to jumpstart a competitive American clean energy economy and fund the technology innovation and deployment needed to affordably secure deep cuts in U.S.... [read more]

Cantwell-Collins: Want $100/month with Your Emissions Cuts?

December 29, 2009 by Scott Edward Anderson
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The Cantwell-Collins "cap-and-rebate" climate bill, known as the Carbon Limits and Energy for America's Renewal Act (CLEAR), proposes refunding 75 percent of all revenue collected back to U.S. residents in a monthly check of about $100 per family of four. Tim Hurst over at Ecopolitology has a good analysis of the bill proposed by... [read more]

New Senate Climate Bill Would Send You a Monthly Check

December 28, 2009 by Tim Hurst
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New Senate climate bill proposes a "cap and dividend" model. (Photo: seng1011) Cantwell-Collins ‘cap-and-rebate’ plan would refund 75% of all revenue collected back to U.S. residents in a monthly check of roughly $100 per family of four. Just one day after Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham... [read more]

Cap and dividend would put consumers in charge. Can we handle it?

December 23, 2009 by Dave Rochlin
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By Dave Rochlin - originally posted on care2.com While the climate talks in Copenhagen ended with the world wondering if the US will commit to emissions targets, I have been wondering how we will deliver on the reduction promises made in Copenhagen. Apparently Senator Maria Cantwell has been thinking about this as well. Cap and Trade... [read more]

Cantwell, Collins join bipartisan call for market-based carbon pricing to achieve shrinking cap on carbon

December 13, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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There’s is growing bipartisan support for a shrinking cap on carbon. On Friday, Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) put forward a draft climate bill, the Carbon Limits and Energy for America’s Renewal (CLEAR) Act — full text and info here.  The bill embraces a market-based system to set a price on CO2 using a shrinking... [read more]