​Carbon Fee and Dividend 

Cheap dirty energy prices have fueled the world’s addiction to our carbon- polluting way of life. Many business and fossil fuel executives, economists, citizen groups and politicians are urging implementation of a revenue neutral fee or tax on fossil fuel emissions. Profits from the fee would be rebated to American households to offset higher prices for their energy expenditures.

Citizen's Climate Lobby (CCL)

 Elders Climate Action Flash Mob
 at Union Station

Grandparents Climate Action in Washington, DC, Sept, 2015 was a blast!  We met Elders like ourselves from all over the country, built lasting friendships with people from our own areas and benefited from great speakers.  We learned how to effectively communicate the urgency of our concerns to our members of Congress and expanded our comfort zones with this FLASH MOB!  –Lynn Raskin

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Read More about a Carbon Dividend with a Rebate to the American People

Even Big Oil Wants a Carbon Tax - Now that six of the world's largest oil companies have essentially come out in favor of a carbon tax, it's getting harder to dismiss the idea as some kind of outlandish lefty plot. And those companies can help their cause by engaging Congress directly, instead of outlining their case in a polite letter to the United Nations, BloombergView, June 2015.

A Carbon Tax That America Could Live With - A straightforward introduction to a carbon fee — or carbon tax — as a more effective and less invasive regulatory approach than the federal government has traditionally pursued, New York Times, August 2013.

The Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax - Prominent Libertarian Jerry Taylor makes the conservative case for a carbon tax, Niskanen Center, March 2015.

These Economists Would Use the Tax/Dividend Proceeds for Other Purposes

Oil’s swoon creates the opening for a carbon tax - Harvard University's Lawrence Summers proposes the funds be split between investments in infrastructure and pro-work tax credits, Washington Post, January 2015.

Time to Tax Carbon - Author interview and book review of Double Dividend: Environmental Taxes and Fiscal Reform in the United States, endorses the concept of a carbon tax, but is less balanced to help offset household costs as some other models, Harvard Magazine, September 2014.

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