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Pricing Carbon in the United States

Resources

Topic

U.S. Climate

Regions

North America

16 Resources for

Research

September 19, 2019

Putting a Price on Carbon: Evaluating A Carbon Price and Complementary Policies for a 1.5° World

Research

June 21, 2018

Achieving U.S. Emissions Targets with a Carbon Tax

Publications

July 18, 2017

Roundtable at the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology: Embracing a 21st Century, Low-Carbon Economy

News

June 20, 2017

STATEMENT: “Carbon Dividend” Proposal Offers Bipartisan, Pro-Market Approach to Climate Change

carbon pricing
Business

carbon pricing
Business

Insights

April 20, 2016

Carbon Taxes on the Table in US Presidential Campaign

carbon pricing
climate policy
Climate
GHG emissions

Crane power plant

carbon pricing
climate policy
Climate
GHG emissions

Insights

April 15, 2016

West Virginia Imagines a Future Beyond Coal

carbon pricing
fossil fuels
climate change
U.S. policy

Mountain removal for coal on West Virginia’s Kayford Mountain.

carbon pricing
fossil fuels
climate change
U.S. policy

Insights

April 8, 2016

Help for Coal Country from a Carbon Fee?

fossil fuels
climate change
climate impacts
U.S. policy

Pocahontas coal plant in Eastgulf, West Virginia.

fossil fuels
climate change
climate impacts
U.S. policy

Research

April 6, 2016

Putting a Price on Carbon: Ensuring Equity

Insights

March 1, 2016

Carbon Tax vs. Cap-and-Trade: What’s a Better Policy to Cut Emissions?

U.S. Climate
carbon pricing
climate change
GHG emissions
U.S. policy

Xcel Energy's Sherburne County (Sherco) Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant, near Becker, Minnesota.

U.S. Climate
carbon pricing
climate change
GHG emissions
U.S. policy

Research

January 13, 2016

Putting a Price on Carbon: Reducing Emissions

Insights

January 13, 2016

A Carbon Price Will Reduce Emissions More than Computer Models Predict

carbon pricing
climate change
GHG emissions
U.S. policy

carbon pricing
climate change
GHG emissions
U.S. policy

Insights

November 24, 2015

How Critics Try (and Fail) to Attack Carbon Pricing

carbon pricing
climate change
U.S. policy

carbon pricing
climate change
U.S. policy

Insights

June 30, 2015

Carbon Pricing Gains Popularity with Governments, Businesses

Energy
Economics
Climate
GHG emissions
greenhouse gases
low carbon development

Photo by Uwe Hermann/Flickr.

Energy
Economics
Climate
GHG emissions
greenhouse gases
low carbon development

Insights

April 30, 2015

A Carbon Price Would Benefit More than Just the Climate

climate change
U.S. policy

Apollo Beach power plant in Florida. Photo by MonkeyBoy0076/Wikimedia Commons

climate change
U.S. policy

News

April 30, 2015

RELEASE: New Paper: Carbon Pricing in US Would Deliver Multiple Benefits, Reduce Emissions

climate change
GHG emissions
U.S. policy

climate change
GHG emissions
U.S. policy

Research

April 30, 2015

Putting a Price on Carbon: A Handbook for U.S. Policy Makers