Michael Green
Our Annual Tesla Raffle is Back for a 5th Time!
This year brought untold suffering to millions of people around the world. We continue to grapple with a pandemic that has taken so many lives and endure an economic crisis to a degree we haven’t seen since the Great Depression....
What you need to know about this year’s UN climate negotiations
This week, world and business leaders headed to Madrid for the two-week 25th Conference of the Parties (COP) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). For almost three decades, governments from around the world have been meeting...
Moving Forward: Our next steps
An open letter from our Executive Director on our past achievements and plans for the future. If you had told me four years ago that in 2019 there would be carbon pricing bills introduced in 16 states, and there would be...
Big business is not just on board with carbon pricing, it’s lobbying for it
Business leaders from across the country headed to Washington D.C. this week to push for a federal price on carbon emissions. Over 75 businesses descended on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, representing a range of industries with over $2.5 trillion in...
President Spilka, Speaker DeLeo, the Ball is in Your Court
In separate speeches to prominent business groups this past month, as reported by the Boston Globe, the leaders of both chambers of the state legislature asked for private sector support in advancing bold policies to address a number of challenges...
Washington D.C. at the forefront of climate policy?
You might not think of our nation’s capital as a hotbed of innovative climate policy. Certainly, a number of headlines coming out of DC have been negative. For instance, last month when the Trump administration attempted to bury a report...
Paris burns, but not over climate change
On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron addressed the nation after four weeks of escalating protests sparked initially by a proposed tax increase set to come into effect in January of 2019. Anti carbon pricing pundits have been quick to point...
Washington votes no on carbon fee, but here’s what we can learn from it
The results are in, and 1631, the ballot initiative proposing a carbon pollution price in Washington state lost with 44 per cent of the vote. The proposed carbon fee initiative would have raised more than $1 billion annually by 2023...
Sonicare Founder David Giuliani on Washington’s I-1631
Carbon pricing is on its way to the ballot box in Washington and we are continuing our coverage of the ballot initiative and what it means for the state. Recently, our Executive Director was able to sit down with entrepreneur...