Word: carbonization
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...sniffs out news much faster than that: he sketched the shape of Clinton's program just a few days after the Inauguration. He realized Clinton would shy away from taxing the carbon content of fuel, for example, after asking the President's advisers whether they were willing to run afoul of Senate Appropriations chairman Robert Byrd, the powerful West Virginia Democrat whose state mines carbon-rich coal. "If you go over the options yourself and think about the difficulty of getting anything through Congress, you can see what questions to ask, and what's likely to happen," Goodgame says. "That...
This would reduce the nation's annual carbon dioxide emissions by 202 million metric tons, which is equivalent to the exhaust expelled from 44 million cars. Harvard students, as tuition-payers and citizens of the earth, cannot afford to see Green Lights ignored...
Many pollutants fall back to earth on their own. Carbon dioxide, for example, is absorbed by trees and by the oceans to be used in photosynthesis. Dust particles fall because of their weight...
...coal-burning utilities and their customers. In a recent letter to Clinton, Richard Disbrow, chairman of the American Electric Power Co. argued that a coal tax would "burden the steel, auto, metalworking, chemical, plastics, paint, paper and primary manufacturing industries, which rely heavily on coal-fired electricity and carbon-based fuels." Such objections seem likely to doom the levy. "Forget the carbon tax," says a top Democratic strategist on Capitol Hill. "If you're looking at 1996 -- and they are at the White House -- that would cost them Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania...
...pocketbooks would be virtually the same as that of the sales tax. Yet it would achieve more pollution control because of its greater impact on coal, which has a high BTU content in relation to its price. Even so, a BTU levy would be far less punitive than a carbon tax. "The BTU tax doesn't cause ^ any big shift in fuel choices," says an official of the United Mine Workers union. "We prefer it to the carbon tax, which could destroy our industry." But the levy would still run afoul of powerful interests that reject the very idea...