What does the executive order mean for the climate? Not much
President Donald Trump’s long-awaited executive order on climate policy vastly remakes the executive branch approach to climate-change risk, adaptation and mitigation. Whereas the Obama administration...
View ArticleThe next repeal and replace
With Obamacare left in place for the time being, President Donald Trump is setting his sights on a different aspect of his predecessor’s legacy. A wide-ranging executive order on climate change, signed...
View ArticleCarbon tax could provide White House with missing link on tax reform
You’ve heard it all before: the U.S. tax code hasn’t been updated since 1986; it’s riddled with loopholes, giveaways and inefficiencies; our corporate tax rate is the highest in the developed world;...
View ArticleEmbarrassment of Riches: Reversing U.S. minerals import dependency
The attached policy study was co-authored by R Street Senior Fellow Catrina Rorke. As recently as 1990, the United States was the world’s largest producer of minerals—a collection of nonfuel resources...
View ArticleEnding Obama EPA’s ban on Alaska’s Pebble Mine is right for American energy
The Environmental Protection Agency is again drawing the ire of environmentalists, this time by lifting an Obama-era ban on development of Alaska’s Pebble Mine. It’s part of a dramatic pivot driven by...
View ArticleCentralized climate planning like Paris wasn’t going to work anyway
Beware of hyperbole: President Donald Trump “canceling” Paris doesn’t mean much. All the hand wringing about the wavering U.S. commitment to climate diplomacy misses the larger message. International...
View ArticleWhitehouse-Schatz carbon tax moves in right direction, but falls far short
Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, are serious about tackling the challenge of climate change and they’re out this year with another carbon proposal intended to be an “olive...
View ArticleRegulatory pre-emption as prelude to carbon pricing
A significant contributor to the polarizing politics of climate-mitigation policy is the concern that any intervention to address greenhouse gas emissions comprehensively will necessarily be expensive....
View ArticleAdjusting a carbon price at the border
The attached policy study was co-authored by R Street Energy Policy Director Josiah Neeley. Economists from across the political spectrum support a carbon tax as the most efficient means to reduce...
View ArticleThe Political Economy of Hybrid Approaches to a U.S. Carbon Tax: A...
From The University of Chicago Press Journals [1]: Some observers have proposed the elimination of this statutory authority to regulate GHGs in exchange for a carbon tax or other new climate...
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