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New carbon tax won't dent car sales
2015-10-14 20:43:38| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
The Federation of Thai Industries believes the new excise tax based on carbon-dioxide emissions instead of engine capacity will not dent car sales when it is introduced next year if the economy recovers as expected. "The new car tax means that the prices of new passenger cars, which are being used by the majority, will increase by about Bt10,000 to Bt100,000.
Could carbon tax prevent dramatic climate change?
2015-09-03 20:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: In recent days, President Obama has painted the risks of climate change in apocalyptic terms. Speaking in Anchorage, AK on Monday, Obama warned that without quick action to slow or reverse global warming, "entire nations will find themselves under severe, severe problems: More drought. More floods. Rising sea levels. Greater migration. More refugees. More scarcity. More conflict. Yet for all his tough rhetoric, Obamas own policy proposals are rather modest. After failing to convince Congress...
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Obama Clean Power Plan Prompts Carbon Tax Chatter
2015-08-04 15:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Journal: The big national cap-and-trade plan died on Capitol Hill five years ago, and it remains very much dead. A carbon tax--the perennial academic solution for curbing greenhouse-gas emissions--had even less traction in Congress and lives on mostly in think tanks. But President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency climate regulations for power plants, unveiled on Monday, may give those policies new life at the state level. In a change from the draft plan, the final EPA rule now explicitly says...
Carbon tax repeal sparks jump Australia electricity emissions
2015-07-05 08:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Electricity emissions have jumped since the repeal of the carbon tax, the Climate Council says. The council cites new data by consultants Pitt & Sherry, showing carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity grid went up 6.4m tonnes in the last financial year since the tax was axed. The increase of 4.3% has undone part of an 11% fall in emissions during the two years the tax was in place. The federal government will soon outline Australias post-2020 targets, before the Paris conference in...
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Sen. Schumer: Carbon Tax Could Come if Clinton Wins 2016 Presidency
2015-06-24 14:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: A federal tax on carbon dioxide emissions is likely to gain traction if Hillary Clinton becomes president and Democrats take control of the Senate in 2016, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said. Schumer, who is the third ranking Democrat in the Senate and likely to be the partys leader in 2017, said Democrats and the GOP could agree on a carbon tax as a way to add funding to the federal government. Theres almost no chance of a tax on Earth-warming carbon passing the current Senate, but Schumer...
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