carbon pricing

Benefits of the Regional Carbon Cost Collection Initiative

The Regional Carbon Cost Collection Initiative is a carbon-fee-and-dividend plan proposed by Climate XChange Maryland (CXC-MD). It is designed to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution arising from the burning of fossil fuels in the residential, commercial, industrial, electricity, and transportation sectors,...

Carbon Pricing in Washington: How Should We Be Talking About Exemptions?

Carbon pricing efforts are not just picking up steam in New England, a similar fight is underway in the northwest. On Thursday afternoon Washington’s state Senate Committee on Ways & Means approved a substitute bill of Governor Jay Inslee’s carbon...

What’s in the Senate Clean Energy Omnibus Bill

by TIM CRONIN, POLICY ASSOCIATE Earlier today the Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change released its final clean energy omnibus bill. The 71-page document contains over 100 sections addressing nearly every topic in clean energy. Below is a breakdown...

Press Conference: Announcing The Carbon Costs Coalition and Growing Business Support

by MARIA VIRGINIA OLANO This morning legislators from nine states announced a new multi-state coalition to push for carbon pricing legislation. While most states focussed on new legislation in their announcement, here in Massachusetts the focus was on business support for...

Policy Update: Cap-and-Dividend Legislation Introduced in Congress

For the first time in eight years, a federal carbon cap program is back on the table. This past Monday Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) introduced The Healthy Climate and Family Security Act of 2018,...

Washington Governor Announces Plan to Price Carbon

Big things are happening in Washington State. Governor Jay Inslee announced carbon pricing as one of his main policy priorities during his annual State of the State Address on January 9th, 2018. On the same day, he announced legislation that...