Carbon Tax Center

Pricing carbon efficiently and equitably

Carbon Tax Center
Pricing carbon efficiently and equitably
  • Home
  • The Basics
    • What’s a carbon tax?
    • Why a carbon tax?
    • Carbon taxes vs. the alternatives
      • Subsidies Reform
      • Clean Air Act Regulation
      • Energy-Efficiency Standards
      • Cap and Trade
      • Cap & Dividend
      • Offsets
    • What to do with the carbon tax revenue
    • Ensuring equity
    • Polls
    • Supporters
      • CTC’s Paris-Summit Letter
      • Public Officials
      • Scientists & Economists
      • Thought Leaders
      • Editorial Positions
      • Writers & Pundits
      • Denialists in their own words
    • Mythbusting
    • FAQs
  • Progress
    • Where carbon is taxed
    • British Columbia / Canada
    • U.S. States
      • State Carbon Taxes: Overview
      • Washington state (Initiative 1631)
      • The Other 49 States (besides WA)
      • Washington’s 2016 carbon-tax defeat
    • Bills
    • Movement-building
    • History
  • Blog / CTC
    • Blog Posts
    • News Items
    • Quotes We Like
    • About Us (Carbon Tax Center)
  • Issues
    • Carbon Tax Effectiveness
    • Green New Deal
    • 2020 Campaign
    • Conservatives
    • What about China?
    • Border Adjustments
    • Methane
    • Carbon-Taxing Bioenergy?
    • Implementation
  • Resources
    • Recommended Policy Journals and Papers
    • Other Organizations Supporting Carbon Taxes
    • Best Articles, Videos & Books
    • Our Slide Show
  • Donate

Rep. Dingell Insists He’s for Carbon Tax

July 25, 2007 By Charles Komanoff

Share

From The Los Angeles Times, July 23, 2007

He means business with carbon tax

Re "Dingell’s roadblock," editorial, July 18:

Several points raised in your editorial deserve clarification, chiefly the assertion that I’m designing a carbon tax bill with the intention of seeing it fail. Never in my "distinguished half a century in the House" have I introduced legislation that I did not believe was worthy of my colleagues’ consideration and the
public’s support.

For months, I’ve been discussing a carbon emissions fee as one option for reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. While it may not be the most popular option, I agree with The Times that a carbon tax would be the most effective available option to fight global warming. Also, I have voted for gasoline taxes in the past and will continue to do so. I don’t have a point to prove. I have a job to do, and I am doing it.

REP. JOHN D. DINGELL
(D-Mich.)

Share

Filed Under: Carbon Tax

Comments

  1. Sylvester Johnson says

    October 8, 2007 at 3:22 am

    To maintain an even international playing field, a tariff could be levied on products imported from countries without a C tax or cap-trade. However, wouldn’t GATT be invoked to strike down such a tariff?

  2. Dan Rosenblum says

    October 8, 2007 at 7:09 pm

    Good points. It may be possible to impose border tax adjustments to reduce or eliminate international competitiveness issues and the border tax adjustments will raise GATT concerns which we believe can be overcome.  We begin to address the points in our discussion of border tax adjustments on our "Issues" page.  We intend to address the issue more thoroughly in the future.

  3. Sylvester Johnson says

    October 9, 2007 at 1:08 am

    Thanks for your considered reply. A professor of political science wants me to give a presentation to his class, but needs to know about GATT undermining the tariff adjustment-or should we call it a border tax adjustment for legal reasons?
    From your “Border Adjustments” page, it appears that the tariff would likely hold, but would not be 100% guaranteed to be robust against a challenge.
    In particular, “it is not clear if an import tax could vary based on the amount of carbon dioxide emitted during a good’s production — WTO rules would have to be interpreted in a way that considers products not to be ‘like’ each other based on their carbon footprints.” Seeking a special interpretaion may be problematic?
    On the other hand,
    “even if “border adjustment” would not be permitted for process-based measures such as a domestic, US carbon tax, regulation or cap-and-trade system, and/or such “border adjustment” would be found to be discriminatory, the resulting GATT violation may still be justified by the environmental exceptions in GATT Article XX (Section VI).”
    Seems like it would be preferable not to provoke a GATT violation in the first place.

  4. Dan Rosenblum says

    October 13, 2007 at 7:37 am

    One way to avoid a GATT issue is to negotiate an international response to climate change that includes a carbon tax.   If the United States were to lead the way instead of doing its best to block progress , the chances of an international agreement would be dramatically improved.  

  5. metformin xr says

    July 25, 2008 at 2:42 pm

    zqonsxp jquwoag

  6. inderal sa says

    July 26, 2008 at 8:59 am

    aflgnpx nhzyfab

  7. drugs similar to plavix says

    July 31, 2008 at 7:06 am

    djley qibolme fvrx

Latest Blog Posts

  • The Climate Moment — and Movement — Have Passed Mike Bloomberg By

  • IMF Adds Populist Twist to Carbon-Tax Push

  • Message to Warren: The Light-Bulb Revolution Teaches that Energy Efficiency Doesn’t Mean Sacrifice

CONNECT WITH US

Follow us Twitter

Tweets by @carbontaxcenter

Quote of Note

Until there are penalties for emitting carbon, clean alternatives will just meet new energy demand. They are not currently displacing ‘fossil fuel use to any great extent’ and will not in the future.”
Share

Robinson Meyer, commenting on three linked articles by the Global Carbon Project, in 5 Big Trends That Increased Earth’s Carbon Pollution, The Atlantic, Dec. 3. The quote is from the project’s article in Nature Climate Change (links are in the Atlantic article).

Share

Carbon Tax Center
11 Hanover Square, 21st Floor
New York, NY 10005
Contact Us
info@carbontax.org

© 2007-2018 Carbon Tax Center.
Some rights reserved.

Privacy Policy | Sitemap

Support the Carbon Tax Center. Our Donate page has instructions for making contributions.