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The EV Car Crash
The EV Car Crash With the petrol and diesel car ban less than four years away, there’s one big problem: nobody wants to buy electric cars By Paul Homewood | The Climate Skeptic | February 6, 2026 With the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars less than four years away now, there remains one seemingly insurmountable obstacle: nobody wants to buy electric cars. Last year, sales of EVs achieved a market share of just 23.43%. Newly released figures for last month show this fell to 20.6%.
Technological magic by Morrison and Taylor wont help in the Australian response to the IPCC report.
The Australian Government seems to think it can solve climate problems through technological magic . It hides a failure of moral leadership. The new IPCC report makes a simple argument. We must cut emissions drastically in the next ten years to maintain any climate stability. We cannot have more new coal mines or gas fields, or we must make those new fields produce zero emissions. Even then it may not be enough. The Australian governments response has been odd.
Marin Voice: PG&E’s electricity rate reform is needed to move forward
If you ask climate policy experts how to steer the economy toward a cleaner future, virtually all would agree with Saul Griffith, founder and chief scientist of Rewiring America, that “All roads point to electrification.” To signal that direction to consumers, governments in both Washington and Sacramento now offer billions of dollars in subsidies to support sales of electric vehicles and heat pumps, powered increasingly by clean renewable energy, rather than cars and furnaces that burn...
How to make carbon pricing more popular
How to make carbon pricing more popular By Jonathan Marshall, Economics Research Coordinator You’d think supporters of a climate policy endorsed by more than 3,600 U.S. economists, the UN Secretary General, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to name a few, would be riding high. Instead, many supporters of carbon pricing are on the defensive against skeptics who claim it can never work in America.
Citizens’ Climate Lobby: Why we still need a national carbon fee
The historic Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which delivers nearly $400 billion in climate investment over a decade, is easily the most powerful climate policy ever enacted in the United States. Coming on top of significant climate-related provisions in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs and the CHIPS and Science Act, America is finally taking the global crisis seriously.
Why we still need a national carbon fee
By Jonathan Marshall The historic Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which delivers nearly $400 billion in climate investment over a decade, is easily the most powerful climate policy ever enacted in the United States. Coming on top of significant climate-related provisions in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs and the CHIPS and Science Act, America is finally taking the global crisis seriously.
California’s experiment shows the effect of carbon pricing on environmental justice
Fortunately, strong climate policies that discourage the burning of fossil fuels will almost always help such disadvantaged populations, which are especially vulnerable both to the immediate health impacts of local air pollution and to growing threats created by extreme weather and other aspects of climate disruption. Carbon fee and dividend is strong medicine for both ills and a humane way to protect lower-income households from the costs of transitioning to a zero-carbon economy.
What California’s experience demonstrates about the effect of carbon pricing on environmental justice
By Jonathan Marshall Even before presidential candidate Joe Biden introduced his “Plan to Secure Environmental Justice and Equitable Opportunity in a Clean Energy Future,” growing numbers of Americans began seeing climate policy and environmental justice as intertwined issues. The environmental justice movement has focused overdue national attention on the disproportionate exposure to unhealthy pollution long faced by marginalized communities, among other issues.
How economists support the fight for a carbon fee and dividend in Hawaii
By Jonathan Marshall Since 2019, an exciting drive to enact a statewide carbon fee and dividend has played out in Hawaii. CCL volunteers have been at the forefront of that ongoing effort along with another non-profit called Faith Action and the state’s Environmental Legislative Caucus.
New report: How to cut emissions without deepening debt
Posted on April 12, 2022 in Advance Climate Policy By Jonathan Marshall Champions of fiscal responsibility have had about as much success in recent years as climate activists, with the national debt and carbon buildup in the atmosphere both soaring. Now a prominent Washington-based organization has found a way to marry the two causes in a report praising the revenue-raising potential of federal carbon taxes, along with their environmental benefits. First, let’s take a look at who wrote the report.
How a reconciliation bill carbon tax could fight climate change and put money in your pocket
“Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” Whoever said that could have been talking about climate policy. Republicans in Congress have long abandoned bipartisan cooperation on climate and have wielded the Senate filibuster to block any legislation that would meaningfully slow the emission of greenhouse gas pollution.
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