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Here we go again: Tax gas or mileage?
For decades, paying for roads has been fairly straightforward. Motorists pay at the pump through gasoline taxes. It's more or less fair, too: The more you drive, the more you pay. But more and more, people involved in transportation planning and...
The case for strong climate policy is simple. A cap on carbon pollution is, too.
Edward L. Glaeser makes the case for simplicity in addressing climate change. I couldn’t agree more with his premise. The basic economics are indeed simple. Climate change might be the largest market failure the world has ever seen. To correct it,...
Stavins on climate Federalism
While I was busy refining Whitehead's Law, other folks were thinking big about climate change legislation. Rob Stavins, in the Boston Globe, says that state cap-and-trade bills should back off if the Feds get it in gear (but, it is hard to...
Climate economics news, New York Times edition
You know something's up, if "All the News That's Fit to Print" seems to be all climate all the time. Today's New York Times contains no fewer than six articles that have climate change and climate economics as their central themes -- and...
The Truth Squad's in the House
Have you heard the one about climate legislation costing every U.S. household $5000? Turns out it's far from the truth, but that didn't stop Heritage to put the number on its blog.EDF's new Climate Vote Truth Squad sets the record...
Cap as the next stimulus
FT.com highlights an impressive flash annimation on the greenness of recovery packages. Spoiler alert: China's trumps the United States' package 2:1.Green stimuli are important, but they are not the full answer. Obama’s stimulus package contains...
Climate policy does wonders for your green-tech patent count
Innovation is the holy grail of climate policy. Without it, we are toast -- quite literally. Climate economists' efforts to quantifying innovation, though, has more closely resembled something of a Monty Python goose chase than a deliberate...
Carbon tax is a poison *b*ill
Grist, making my case:This may piss off some people I respect a great deal. Nonetheless, after hearing it in several off-the-record conversations in D.C. last week, I believe it's something that needs to be said publicly:The 111th U.S. Congress is...
"He said, she said" reporting mangles climate economics story
What do you get when you give a respected journalist an academic fellowship? A new species entirely: a readable academic paper. Eric Pooley, former managing editor of Fortune and a writer for Time magazine spent his fall semester at Harvard. The...
Dispatch from Beijing
Today I traded facing a few million Americans, who have descended upon Washington DC for the inauguration, for a city where a few million on the street during morning rush hour is just another Tuesday.Not that it matters to anyone but myself, but...
Has anyone else noticed that the new trees at the top of the page keep growing?
John must be playing on his 'day off.'Link to original post
Obama on recovery, green jobs and renewable energy
Obama on energy and economic recovery:That starts with new, clean sources of energy. We know that the possibilities here are limitless. Here in Ohio and across America, we’ve seen old factories become new clean energy producers. We’ve seen...
