If the links don't work LMK and I can send attachments. It's a long email but please scroll down to get all the info (and a little history.) At the end is a link to the new carbon tax newsletter to which I have just subscribed.
Jeanne The Carbon Tax Movement is Gaining Momentum, By Charles Komanoff, A Convenient Tax, Carbon Tax Center, June 5, 2007. "Two milestones were reached in the national political arena in April. First, California Democrat Fortney "Pete" Stark, the second-most senior member of the House Ways & Means Committee, introduced the first carbon-tax bill in Congress in a generation. The Save Our Climate Act, filed on April 26 and co-sponsored by Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), would impose a $10 per ton (of carbon) charge on coal, petroleum and natural gas when the fuel is either extracted or imported. The charge would increase by $10 every year until U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have dropped 80 percent from 1990... In the other political milestone, Sen. Chris Dodd has built a strong carbon tax plank into his presidential election platform. Sen. Dodd, a Democrat who has represented Connecticut in the Senate since 1980, is making a Corporate Carbon Tax the centerpiece of his plan to eliminate 80% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2050... In just the past two months, outspoken criticisms of carbon cap-and-trade proposals have been published in Reason magazine, the Financial Times (U.K.), the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times Science Section 'TierneyLab' blog, to name just a handful. Of critical importance, each piece has been effusive in its support of a carbon tax. As we were posting this newsletter, the right-of-center American Enterprise Institute weighed in with an extraordinarily cogent report comparing a carbon tax with cap-and-trade that unambiguously backs carbon taxing as 'the superior policy option.' These testimonials are collected on our Supporters and Tax vs. Cap pages." Charles Komanoff is Cofounder of the Carbon Tax Center. The above-mentioned AEI Report is very detailed and pastes at 12 pages at Arial Size 11. I did not attach it but will do so for anyone who wants it privately. (you can link to it above.) (I know of Charles Komanoff from my anti-nuclear power days back in the late seventies/early eighties. He did extensive work at that time on the dis-economics of nuclear power. I actually met him when he came to Ithaca to testify against the Jamesport Nuclear Power Plant that was proposed at the time for Long Island and was to be a joint project of NYSEG and the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO). I was a member of Ecology Action of Tompkins County, an intervenor in the case and worked at the time with Cornell physicist Dr. Robert O. Pohl, Cornell biologist Allen MacNeill and League of Women Voters activist and current member of the TompCo Board of Reps, Dooley Kiefer. We also worked together opposing the coal plant, Cayuga Station, proposed by NYSEG. Neither plant was ever built. I’m really glad Komanoff is into the climate crisis now as a major advocate of the carbon tax! ) Dear friend of CTC -- The Carbon Tax Center's new newsletter is now available, here: http://www.carbontax.org/about/ or, more straightaway, here: http://www.carbontax.org/blogarchives/2007/06/04/a-convenient-tax-issue-2/ Please give it a read. Let us know what you think. And please forward widely. Best, Charles Komanoff Dan Rosenblum Carbon Tax Center www.carbontax.org ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
