Carbon Tax
Many climate advocates maintain that carbon pricing is still the best way to dial down emissions — even if Exxon got caught saying its support is a ruse.
And yet it continued to fight it.
As lawsuits seeking climate damages from fossil fuel giants ramp up, a new carbon-pricing plan looks to protect them.
Even with the new plan, more drastic steps would need to be taken to cut carbon emissions in time.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Weeks of fiery protest show that climate policy that ignores class doesn't work.
Making individual changes will make a difference, but we’ll be saved only by dramatic, wide-scale change.
Scientists say market tweaks, such as a carbon tax, alone cannot cut emissions 45 percent in 12 years.
It's a moonshot proposal to shift the debate on the one climate policy both political parties seem to see as inevitable.
It's progress from outright denial of reality, but that's about it.
Universities should pay a carbon tax on their faculty's air travel.