Policy Options for Addressing Carbon Tax Impacts to Households

Daniel F. Morris

Carbon pricing remains the strongest option for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating climate change. But such a policy still faces serious political hurdles in part because of the perception that a carbon tax would most negatively impact the poor. Clayton Munnings and I address the potential of a carbon tax to actually be progressive in a new RFF issue brief. Read more here.

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