By George T. Frampton Jr.
Kudos to Siemens for adopting an ambitious plan to eliminate carbon from its global operations. But what can the United States do to improve the carbon-reduction performance of companies that do not follow Siemens’s lead?
Voters are Ready to Depoliticize the Climate Debate
American voters are eager to “depoliticize” climate change and clean energy, says Kristen Soltis Anderson, one of three leading Republican pollsters who conducted a survey released September 28.
“At the moment some of the louder voices in the party are dominating this debate,” she told The New York Times. “But as we move out of the entertainment phase of the (presidential) campaign and look at more of the policy platforms, there’s a way for Republicans to talk about this that depoliticizes climate.”
Study Shows Low-Income Households Not Impacted by Carbon Fee
The word “bandwagon” is probably too strong at this point, but the more that people scrutinize carbon fees, the better they look and the broader the support they have. Some skeptics have claimed that a fee, because it would be passed along, would hurt those with low or modest incomes. True, it is regressive, but there are simple ways to reimburse those who are most vulnerable.