Amid Renewed Carbon Tax Push, WRI Offers Emissions Certainty Options

June 21, 2018
Amid a renewed political push to overcome long-standing GOP opposition to a carbon tax due to fears of economic harm, the World Resources Institute (WRI) is outlining options to assuage competing concerns from environmentalists that such a policy would fail to cut enough greenhouse gases to address climate change. The group released a June 21 report that outlines a suite of options to craft an “emissions target mechanism” in any carbon tax policy, though it acknowledges that some of the...


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