James Handley, Carbon Tax Network

@FJHandley

Climate policy wonk, environmental lawyer (w/ engineering, economics) cyclist, amateur fiddler. 9 yrs @ Carbon Tax Center, 14 @ US EPA.

Joined October 2012

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  1. Pinned Tweet

    : Dr. Katey Walter Anthony was looking for Arctic lakes releasing methane gas. She found more of it, and from a different source, than anyone imagined...

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  2. Jan 3

    Looking forward to reading 's new book, especially chapter 4, titled "Isn't There a Better Way? (No, There Isn't.)"

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  3. "The savings from avoiding climate catastrophes are immense. If you really want to innovate, there has to be a cost to carbon pollution." --

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  4. 27 Dec 2018

    A carbon tax reform focused on using revenue to address impact on poor and transition to a green economy can help. Lots of plans out there do that. And momentum is building in Washington for pricing carbon. Seems premature to throw in the towel now on carbon pricing. 2/3

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  5. "Maybe... every penny [should] go to relieve the burden on the working class, perhaps by cutting payroll taxes and putting more cash into its pockets the day the goes into effect." Yep, that's what suggested and proposed in 2009.

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  6. "We followed Republicans down the cap-and-trade road, instead of using simpler methods to control emissions. Republicans [then] savaged us for the complexity of the scheme Republicans had originally invented."

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  7. “[] solutions are ready to go, will make people’s lives better, create millions of good jobs, if we can just get these [] billionaires, executives, lobbyists & politicians they collude with out of the way.”

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  8. Almost buried under right-wing polemics, a nugget of truth: "A is better than many of the taxes we have, which punish work, saving and investment."

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  9. “[] solutions are ready to go, will make people’s lives better, create millions of good jobs, if we can just get these [] billionaires, executives, lobbyists and politicians they collude with out of the way.”

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  10. Some advocates (e.g., ) claim "Modern Monetary Theory" justifies "printing money" to pay for . Others "acknowledge a role for , ." Care to comment for Common Sense?

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  11. Sens. Jeff Flake, R-AZ., Chris Coons, D-DE., on Wednesday introduced a & bill to combat , just days before this Congress adjourns.

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  12. Pay for + reduce emissions w ? Voters support spending revenue on Renewable Energy R&D, (low carbon) Infrastructure, Transition assistance for coal workers...

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  13. Donald Marron & Elaine Maag of analyze design options for . Revenue-neutral dividend would be ~1/4 less than revenue collected b/c gov't would pay e.g., on fuel & would reduce other tax revenues.

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  14. Eli Lehrer of says liberals use as excuse to push policy they'd want even w/o climate crisis. Alas, 's pitch for confirms Eli's point. KVH even claims no need to pay for it. Hello? ?

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  15. 19 Dec 2018

    Senator Barasso is basically arguing, instead of putting away savings for our children’s futures, why don’t we head to the casino and put it all on red?

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  16. Fossil Fuel interests moving from science to economics denial?

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  17. : Fossil released by abrupt thaw of arctic thermokarst lakes would more than double radiative forcing from circumpolar permafrost-soil fluxes this century, Not currently included in permafrost feedback models.

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  18. Briefing by Katey Walter Anthony last Fri: Thawing from lake releases fossil from deep previously-sealed formation. If widespread, ominous sign of doom. ICYMI: Splendid report (Sept 22).

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  19. "The philosophical divide between hard left [slushy ] & center-left [] didn’t help in WA state. And it won’t help in Wash. D.C., either." Why not combine? Fund , w/ briskly-rising ?

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  20. “We welcome ConocoPhillips into Americans for Carbon Dividends [] & commend their leadership supporting this important [] initiative,” Trent Lott (R-Miss.), former Senate majority leader and co-chairman of ACFD.

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