Strong National Security Advocates, Social Conservatives Join in Cosponsoring Address
On September 18, 2006, at New York University, Former Vice President Al Gore presented a comprehensive approach to solving the climate crisis and challenged America to take bold new steps to secure the nation’s future.
A September 27, 2006 article in Inside Green Business (subscribers only) noted that, in his speech, Gore touched on the concept of a pollution tax, which was detailed in an April 2006 policy brief “issued by the Brookings Institution and the World Resources Institute, which said that taxes on CO2 emissions can help pay for additional tax cuts favored by Republican lawmakers struggling to avoid adding to the federal debt.”
For more on a carbon tax as a fiscal policy option: “Taxing Carbon to Finance Tax Reform,” an 8-page March 2006 Issue Brief by WRI’s Craig Hanson and Duke Energy’s James R. Hendricks Jr. “Taxing Carbon to Finance Tax Reform”
