Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Carbon Tax

Study: A Road Pricing Scheme That Actually Cuts Driving

By Kea Wilson | Oct 13, 2021 | No Comments

Participants who received cash for choosing modes of transport that are most beneficial to society ended up driving far less than study participants who did not get the reward.

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Multi-State Climate Plan Fails To Please All Advocates

By Ethan Goffman | Jul 6, 2021 | No Comments

The latest version of a multistate plan to lower transportation emissions represents an improvement, but still doesn't go far enough on environmental-justice issues, some advocates say.

Hey, Paul Krugman, We Happen to Have ‘Carbon Tax’ Legend Charlie Komanoff Right Here

By Charles Komanoff | Apr 4, 2019 | 8 Comments

Our expert debunks one of the Nobel laureate's misperceptions about carbon taxation.

Slain Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi. Photo:
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To Punish Saudi Regime for Killing Jamal Khashoggi, Institute a Carbon Tax in U.S.

By Charles Komanoff | Oct 22, 2018 | 29 Comments

This is more than just payback for the regime that murdered Jamal Khashoggi. It's good public policy.

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The New Climate Villain Is Cheap Oil

By Charles Komanoff | Jan 11, 2016 | No Comments

Long-term climate prospects brightened somewhat in 2015. Pope Francis put climate care on the moral and political agenda. President Obama rejected the Keystone XL dirty-oil pipeline. Denialist heads of state were routed in Canada and Australia, and their brethren in the U.S. faced growing ridicule. To cap it off, nearly 200 nations signed the UN Paris […]

Climate Idealism Can’t Hold a Candle to Collective Action

By Charles Komanoff | Mar 30, 2015 | 10 Comments

Cross-posted from the Carbon Tax Center. Why do Copenhageners ride bicycles? The key reason, says Yale economist and bestselling author Robert J. Shiller, is that Danes are idealists who resolved, after the oil crisis of the 1970s, “to make a personal commitment to ride bicycles rather than drive, out of moral principle, even if that […]

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