Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Charles Komanoff

Carbon Tax vs. Cap and Trade

By Glenn McAnanama | Aug 29, 2007 | 7 Comments

Congressional debate on climate change has revealed division among politicians on how to best regulate carbon emissions. From NPR’s Marketplace, we get a report on the sharp difference between leading Democrats in both houses, Sen. Barbara Boxer (CA) and Rep. John Dingell (MI) Boxer is quoted as preferring cap and trade, which seems to be […]

The Introduction of a New Order of Things

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 17, 2007 | 5 Comments

In his essay, "Valuing the Commons," Charles Komanoff discusses congestion pricing and carbon taxes and the difficulty in convincing people to pay for their negative externalities. Komanoff wrote it back in June and it’s on Grist this week: What, then, is standing in the way of congestion fees and a national carbon tax? The power […]

7/7/07: The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 7, 2007 | 8 Comments

The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook is the official companion volume to today’s Live Earth concerts, 24 hours of nonstop concerts broadcast from around the world on 7/7/07. It’s a fun little book, meant to connect with a younger audience via tongue-in-cheek suggestions, practical advice, factual information, and imaginative, bluesky solutions for climate change. […]

It’s the Bus Riders, Stupid.

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 15, 2007 | 4 Comments

Is Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan, a regressive tax, unfair to New York City’s poor and working class? That’s what Westchester Assembly member Richard Brodsky and quite a few of the other critics claim. Before last week’s public hearing before the state legislature Brodsky cited a study commissioned by City Hall showing the mayor’s plan […]

Quebec Approves Carbon Tax on Fuels to Cut Greenhouse Gases

By Jason Varone | Jun 14, 2007 | 5 Comments

Quebec will become the first Canadian province to impose a carbon tax on energy producers. Bloomberg reports: The provincial cabinet approved the tax in Quebec City yesterday, according to a statement on the Natural Resources Ministry Web site. Refiners including Valero Energy Corp.’s Ultramar unit and Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s Canadian unit will start paying […]

T.A.: City, State Parking Drive Would Torpedo Taxi Initiative

By Brad Aaron | Jun 5, 2007 | 10 Comments

The increase in CO2 caused by over 20,000 parking spaces sought by the city would "effectively take away more than one-third of the gains" promised by Mayor Bloomberg’s hybrid cab plan. As previously reported on Streetsblog, the city and state are currently teaming up to bring some 20,000 new parking spaces to Manhattan’s far West […]

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