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Articles by Joel Darmstadter
Federal Gas Tax Relief: A Misguided Impulse
AP But lets face things head-on: This would represent a change distinctly less than salutary. It would be a small - and largely cosmetic - gesture that obscures a much larger problem the country has spent years loath to confront: the gas tax-funded Highway Trust Fund, which faces insolvency. Congress didnt vote to cut the tax in half. Inflation did it quietly.
COP30 and the Art of Climate-Policy Neglect
This November, delegates from nearly 200 countries convened in Brazil for COP30 – where COP stands for “Conference of Parties,” and the number 30 reflects the number of such events since the very first one in Berlin in 1995. Stemming from a UN statute adopted in 1992 and bearing the acronym UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), reaching the 30th edition of COP would be a triumph if its success was measured on diplomatic endurance.
COP30 and the Art of Climate-Policy Neglect
AP This November, delegates from nearly 200 countries convened in Brazil for COP30 - where COP stands for "Conference of Parties," and the number 30 reflects the number of such events since the very first one in Berlin in 1995. Stemming from a UNstatute adopted in 1992and bearing the acronym UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), reaching the 30thedition of COP would be a triumph if its success was measured on diplomatic endurance.
Measured Modification to BSEE’s Well Control Rule
On May 11, 2018, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) issued a proposed rule to relax 59 of 342 elements of its 2016 blowout preventer (BOP) and well control rule, enacted in response to the Deepwater Horizon well blowout and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The proposed changes seek to reduce what the administration considers redundant requirements for testing and paperwork submissions as well as making some provisions more flexible and clarifying the text of others.
Trump’s Climate Executive Order Discards American Values
President Trump’s executive order issued today promises to roll back much of the country’s efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the risk of catastrophic climate change. Specifically, it commits the Trump administration to rolling back President Obama’s Clean Power Plan (limiting emissions from fossil-fueled power plants) as well as a variety of other, smaller regulations.
Conservatives' Embrace of a Carbon Tax Requires Revisiting the Coal Impact
In early February, a group of prominent and respected economists as well as former federal cabinet secretaries released a three-part report under the auspices of the Climate Leadership Council (CLC), urging the adoption of a carbon tax to help address the problem of global warming. It is the quantitative analysis in the second of the three reports (A Winning Trade) that is particularly germane to my discussion here.
Brazil Takes a Turn for - What?
A recent BloombergView article (“Brazil Puts a Denier in Charge of Climate Change,” January 7) draws a sharp contrast between Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s September UN General Assembly reference to climate change as “one of the greatest challenges of our times” and a just-announced appointment to her cabinet. A slightly edited version of my “comment” to the article follows.
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