The cap and trade system is thus functionally similar to a tax on carbon. Indeed, in stable world with perfect information, cap and trade would be exactly equivalent to a carbon tax. Of course, we ...

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Carbon cap-and-trade is not cap-and-trade when it contains tax. Congress is prepared to set tradable permit caps for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for power plants at levels ...

Carbon tax is better on merits, cap-and-traders trade away political advantages Standards-based regulations and public investment are superior to either carbon taxes or cap-and-trade. But we need ...

That would essentially require factories, utilities and refineries to pay for the right to emit carbon dioxide. The so-called cap-and-trade system aims to reduce emissions by 70 percent by 2050.

As a policy, cap and trade has been widely applied, in many cases successfully. The U.S. used one in the 1980s to successfully slash sulfur dioxide pollution that was causing acid rain and again ...

President Obama has driven a stake in the heart of his carbon cap-and-trade program. By transforming it from a relatively cost-effective environmental program into a cash cow to finance his ...

Recently, the state of Washington embarked on an ambitious new plan to combat climate change. Taking a page from economics textbooks, the state instituted a statewide "cap and trade" system for ...

The Northeast’s cap-and-trade program has installed its keystone. Now, the question is how long it will stay in place. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) announced last week that his administration ...

By contrast, a cap-and-trade system sets a maximum level of pollution, a cap, and distributes emissions permits among firms that produce emissions. Companies must have a permit to cover each unit of ...

Additionally, our experiment showed that emissions were 11.7 percent lower under the cap-and-trade scenario. This was partly due to lower production volume overall, but the bulk of the difference ...