posts tagged as carbon dioxide emissions
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March 2017
In the U.S. debate over a federal carbon tax, one of the key arguments is that the receipts from a new carbon...
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January 2017
The “social cost of carbon” (henceforth “SCC”) is one of the major points of controversy on energy policy, amidst the major changes...
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January 2017
On January 5, 2017, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its Annual Energy Outlook 2017, which provides annual forecasts of energy supply...
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May 2016
According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), U.S. carbon dioxide emissions were 2.5 percent less in 2015 than in 2014. In fact,...
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April 2016
One of the obvious problems with implementing a carbon tax is that there would be “leakage”—meaning that CO2-intensive industries would have an...
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April 2016
In any area of life, you don’t want to suffer from leakage. But in the context of climate change policy, leakage refers...