Carbon Pricing Proposals in Today's Congress, with Marc Hafstead

11/11/2019 34 min
Carbon Pricing Proposals in Today's Congress, with Marc Hafstead

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Episode Synopsis

In this special episode of Resources Radio, host Daniel Raimi partners with the Energy 360° podcast from the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Energy Program. Raimi and CSIS's Sarah Ladislaw interview RFF Fellow Marc Hafstead, director of RFF's Carbon Pricing Initiative.

Raimi and Ladislaw talk with Hafstead about a raft of recent legislative proposals in the US Congress to price greenhouse gas emissions: the major design elements of these bills, such as how revenues are used; how border adjustments can help protect US manufacturers; the political viability of these different proposals, including which policy elements might help build support for a carbon price; and whether other policy approaches, such as a Clean Energy Standard, stand more of a chance in today's political environment.

References and recommendations:

"The Wizard and the Prophet" by Charles C. Mann; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/220698/the-wizard-and-the-prophet-by-charles-c-mann/

"Paying for Pollution: Why a Carbon Tax is Good for America" by Gilbert E. Metcalf; https://global.oup.com/academic/product/paying-for-pollution-9780190694197

"Paying for Pollution, with Gilbert Metcalf" Resources Radio podcast episode; https://www.resourcesmag.org/resources-radio/resources-radio-paying-for-pollution-with-gilbert-metcalf-of-tufts-university/

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