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Why Does Politics Keep Getting in the Way of Pricing Carbon?
2014-07-20 22:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Energy Collective: While a carbon price is every economists' favorite climate plan, real-world political constraints get in the way (just ask Australia!) In a new paper in Energy Policy, I examine a variety of political economy constraints that limit the environmental efficacy and economic efficiency of real-world carbon pricing policies. Households in the United States appear willing to pay just $80-200 per year to combat climate change, equivalent to a carbon tax of roughly $2-8 per ton. In contrast, estimates...
Pesticide & GMO companies spend big to influence politics in Hawaii
2014-06-20 13:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Hawaii has become "ground zero" in the controversy over genetically modified crops and pesticides. With the seed crop industry (including conventional as well as GMO crops) reaping $146.3 million a year in sales resulting from its activities in Hawaii, the out-of-state pesticide and GMO firms Syngenta, Monsanto, DuPont Pioneer, Dow Chemical, BASF, and Bayer CropScience have brought substantial sums of corporate cash into the state`s relatively small political arena. Chemical conglomerates retaliate...
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Emissions plan is all politics
2014-06-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Twin Cities: The Obama administration has proposed new rules intended to limit carbon emissions from electrical power plants. The rules are objectionable to virtually all Republicans as they extend federal environmental regulation, at least incrementally. They also are so bland and cautious that they will satisfy few who think climate change is a vital problem. Most economists find them a third- or fourth-best approach in terms of economic efficiency. But they probably are the best one could do in the current...
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Applying the Lessons of Politics to Green Power
2014-05-27 05:37:07| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Over the years, Tom Matzzie by working as a political operative on John Kerrys 2004 presidential campaign and on building the antiwar movement that helped usher President Obama into office became convinced that the key to creating change was to make it easy for people to participate. But it was not until 2010, as he navigated the complexities of buying and installing solar panels on his home here, that he thought to apply those lessons to renewable energy. That idea would become part of an...
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Inside Texas Politics
2014-05-25 20:00:44| Electronics - Topix.net
This week on "Inside Texas Politics" - The debate over debates. Will the two Texas gubernatorial candidates even meet face-to-face? After weeks of silence on debates Wendy Davis launches a new strategy, but will it work? And we'll discuss Jerry Patterson's relentless attacks against Dan Patrick.
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