Carbon Price Prospects, with Andres Jimenez and Jamie DeMarco of CCL (Ep. 56)

In this episode we focus on carbon pricing and its prospects both federally and in the states. My guests are Andres Jimenez, Senior Director of Government Affairs, and Jamie DeMarco, State-Level Carbon Pricing Coordinator, for Citizens' Climate Lobby. In a purely coincidental bit of good timing, the morning that our interview was scheduled, a bipartisan group of Congressmembers introduced a major new federal carbon price bill. We start the interview by discussing the bill, what it does and what its prospects are, and then we shift gears and discuss the state landscape for carbon pricing.

References include:

• Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (HR 7173)
• Bill summary from Rep. Ted Deutch's office 
• CCL's webpage on the bill
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report 15
• Fourth National Climate Assessment

Articles:

• Bipartisan group of lawmakers propose landmark carbon tax (Timothy Cama and Miranda Green, The Hill, Nov. 28)
• House lawmakers introduce first bipartisan carbon tax bill in a decade (Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, Nov. 28)
• A hopeless carbon tax bill that's still worth watching (Ben Geman, Axios, Nov. 28)

 

Recorded: November 28, 2018. Published: November 29, 2018.

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