China is the number-one source of greenhouse gases. But Washington Post China Bureau Chief Simon Denyer recently wrote: “There is a growing sense that a fundamental change is taking place, because of an aggressive shift into cleaner fuels, slower economic growth that has hit heavy industry hardest, and a conscious transition away from high-polluting industries that used a lot of coal and electricity.”
With Paris Conference 14 Days Away, Partnership Cites 14 Who Support Carbon Fee
Boston Globe: A Carbon Fee Proposal Republicans Could Get Behind
There is a way to get congressional Republicans to tackle climate change ("Rubio and the carbon tax," Scot Lehigh, Opinion, Nov. 6) Our nonprofit met individually with 175 Senate and House members, or their aides, to sound them out on this centrist approach: Enact a carbon fee, and use half the revenue from that fee to drop the corporate tax rate, the highest in the industrial world, from 35 to 25 percent.
Is Wind Catching Up to Oil in Texas?
Tough News to Handle on a Monday
Monday mornings are tough enough. But they are even harder to handle when the news includes items like this: "Climate change could push more than 100 million into extreme poverty by 2030 by disrupting agriculture and fueling the spread of malaria and other diseases, the World Bank said in a report Sunday.