In today’s New York Times, Coral Davenport reports, “More than two dozen of the nation’s biggest corporations, including the five major oil companies, are planning their future growth on the expectation that the government will force them to pay a price for carbon pollution as a way to control global warming.” That’s great news.  And […]

Academics serious about addressing the climate crisis agree: we need to put a price on carbon.  But it’s tough to sell an idea without a shared vocabulary and many people are unclear about what this phrase – “put a price on carbon” – even means.  Still more are puzzled by terms like “cap-and-trade,” “fee-and-dividend,” and […]