Saving Our Planet

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  Americans Will Pay a High Price to Save Coal

  Bloomberg Opinion - The Editors

  An interesting question raised by President Donald Trump’s misguided order to prop up uneconomical coal and nuclear power plants in the name of national security is: How much is this going to cost? Not in climate terms, although here the indirect costs could be greatest in the long run. And not in …

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  Do Carbon Taxes Just Feed the Beast?

  bloombergview.com - The Editors

  Countries introducing a carbon tax to cut greenhouse-gas emissions have mostly found that the policy works, and that jobs and incomes don't suffer. …

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  Climate Change

  bloombergview.com - Jess Shankleman

  Scientists have mostly stopped arguing about whether humans are warming the planet. Last year was again the hottest on record, and the globe is on …

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  Climate March, Climate Summit, Climate Tax?

  bloombergview.com - The Editors

  Most economists agree that a carbon tax is the best way to slow climate change. Make energy derived from fossil fuels more expensive, they say, and …

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  Carbon Taxes Don't Kill Jobs

  bloombergview.com - The Editors

  Where they've been tried, the evidence shows, well-designed carbon taxes have succeeded in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. But that doesn't …

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  Your Island Sinking? Go to Canada

  bloombergview.com - Christopher Flavelle

  Today's United Nations climate summit is a reminder that rich countries still aren't ready to make deep cuts to their carbon emissions or make …