Sightline Series Cashing In Our Carbon

If Sightline could only do one thing for a sustainable Northwest, we’d put a price on carbon pollution—on the emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases. Doing so would speed the entire regional economy through the transition from coal, oil, and other dirty fossil fuels to clean, efficient, renewable energy. It would also help stem or reverse sprawl, breathe life into alternatives to the automobile, clean the air and water, and keep local dollars circulating locally. Forces are now aligning to focus North American momentum for carbon pricing in Oregon and Washington, which stand between British Columbia, with its carbon tax, and California, with its new carbon cap. This series explains how and why Salem and Olympia should start cashing in on carbon.

Posts on Cashing In Our Carbon 42. Everything Oregon Legislators Need To Know About Stopping Climate Pollution In seven minutes of testimony.

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on June 15, 2015 at 8:37 am

41. Three Things to Know About CarbonWA’s Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax Washington’s relief pitcher is ready to put a revenue-neutral carbon tax on the 2016 ballot.

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on April 16, 2015 at 6:30 am 40. Listen In: Oregon’s Proposed Polluters-Pay Bills Two radio interviews on Oregon’s proposed carbon pricing bills sum up the facts.

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on April 15, 2015 at 11:10 am

39. Myths and Facts about Capping Climate Change Pollution You’ve heard some unsubstantiated rumors. Here are the facts.

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on April 13, 2015 at 6:30 am

38. Oregon has a climate law implementation question. HB 3470 has an answer. The Climate Stability & Justice Act would empower Oregon to meet its existing climate goals.

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on April 9, 2015 at 6:30 am

37. What If Polluters Paid and You Got the Money? Two climate bills would give every Oregonian a $500-$1,500 dividend check every year.

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on April 2, 2015 at 6:30 am

36. Four Charts Show Carbon Pollution Accountability Act is Still Awesome When polluters pay, jobs grow and Washington schools benefit.

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on March 24, 2015 at 6:30 am

35. Event: Curious About Carbon Pricing? Learn how Oregon can make polluters pay.

Keiko Budech (@keikoanya) on March 23, 2015 at 6:25 am

34. 10 Key Takeaways from BC’s Polluters-Pay Model Advice from northern Cascadia.

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on February 25, 2015 at 6:30 am

33. VIDEO: The Pacific Northwest Can End the Free Lunch for Carbon Polluters Beyond carbon in 60 seconds (part 1).

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on February 17, 2015 at 6:30 am

32. How the Oil Industry Will Try to Kill Carbon Pricing Is the sky falling? No, gas prices are. Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on January 21, 2015 at 10:33 am

31. Event: Putting a Price on Carbon Join Alan Durning for an exciting roundtable discussion on carbon pricing.

Keiko Budech (@keikoanya) on January 12, 2015 at 6:25 am

30. All I got for Christmas Was the Washington State Carbon Tax Swap Calculator And I can’t stop playing with it!

Yoram Bauman (@standupecon) on January 6, 2015 at 6:30 am

29. How much do we spend on fossil fuels? Oregonians and Washingtonians spend twice as much on fossil fuels as on public education.

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on December 29, 2014 at 6:30 am

28. Why the Carbon Pollution Accountability Act Is a Big, Awesome Deal This is Washington State’s moment: Make polluters pay and fund education, transportation, and equity.

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on December 18, 2014 at 12:52 pm

27. A Carbon Pollution Policy with All the Fixin’s Getting creative with carbon pricing (Part 4).

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on December 16, 2014 at 6:30 am

26. Event: Carbon Pricing Options for Oregon Join us to learn what carbon pricing would mean for Oregon.

Keiko Budech (@keikoanya) on December 10, 2014 at 2:13 pm

25. The New Oregon Carbon Tax Report is Out If Oregon invests well, a carbon tax will grow jobs and wages.

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on December 10, 2014 at 6:30 am

24. Why Price Carbon—Can’t We Just Regulate It? Getting creative with carbon pricing (Part 3).

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on November 24, 2014 at 6:30 am 23. The Washington Carbon Emissions Reduction Taskforce Report is Out Blue ribbon panel says: let’s price carbon!

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on November 17, 2014 at 1:05 pm

22. All the World’s Carbon Pricing Systems in One Animated Map Plus, answers to decisionmakers' top eight questions about them.

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on November 17, 2014 at 6:30 am

21. Event: Will a Carbon Tax Fly in Oregon? Kristin Eberhard and the Corvallis League of Women Voters talk carbon cash.

Serena Larkin (@serenalarkin) on November 14, 2014 at 6:35 am

20. Indiana Jones and the Clean Power Rule Getting creative with carbon limits (Part 2).

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on November 12, 2014 at 1:00 pm

19. The #1 Question from Progressives about Revenue-Neutral Carbon Taxes It’s déjà vu all over again.

Yoram Bauman (@standupecon) on October 30, 2014 at 6:47 am

18. The #1 Question from Conservatives about Revenue-Neutral Carbon Taxes And my stab at an answer.

Yoram Bauman (@standupecon) on October 29, 2014 at 7:45 am

17. Four Carbon Cap-Tax Hybrids Getting creative with carbon limits (Part 1).

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on October 24, 2014 at 6:30 am

16. Can We Depend on the Money? What Washington’s carbon revenue stream could look like through 2050.

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on October 13, 2014 at 6:30 am

15. Marching Forward Against Climate Change How to make good decisions when you can't predict the future. Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on September 23, 2014 at 11:00 am

14. Carbon Pricing and Northwest Businesses A match made in tax-swap heaven?

Yoram Bauman (@standupecon) on August 7, 2014 at 6:30 am

13. California, Here We Come Washington should join the carbon cap.

Alan Durning and Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on August 4, 2014 at 6:30 am

12. There’s Plenty of Room at Hotel California How Oregon and Washington Could Link to California’s cap-and-trade program.

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on July 28, 2014 at 6:30 am

11. Why Washington State Should Adopt a BC-style Carbon Tax My personal prescription.

Yoram Bauman (@standupecon) on July 25, 2014 at 6:30 am

10. Four Carbon Pricing Pitfalls to Avoid Europe paved the way so that Cascadia can do better.

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on July 2, 2014 at 6:30 am

9. Reggie Recommends Six things Cascadia can learn from our carbon-pricing elder.

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on June 27, 2014 at 6:30 am

8. Meet Reggie Four things to understand about the East Coast cap-and-trade program.

Kristin Eberhard (@KristinEberhard) on June 26, 2014 at 6:30 am

7. Everything You Need To Know About Carbon Pricing Explained in Cartoon An excerpt from my new illustrated book!

Yoram Bauman (@standupecon) on June 2, 2014 at 10:30 am 6. Event: Yoram Bauman at Town Hall Seattle The stand-up economist introduces his new book, The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change.

Serena Larkin (@serenalarkin) on May 29, 2014 at 6:30 am

5. The Carbon Pricing Café Washington State, check out our tantalizing menu!

Yoram Bauman (@standupecon) on May 28, 2014 at 6:30 am

4. 17 Things to Know About California’s Carbon Cap The Golden (State's) rules.

Alan Durning and Yoram Bauman (@standupecon) on May 22, 2014 at 6:30 am

3. The Canadians Are Coming! Cross-border fill-ups and the BC carbon tax.

Yoram Bauman (@standupecon) on May 21, 2014 at 6:30 am

2. Will Oregon Cook Up a Carbon Tax? An illustrated taster's guide.

Yoram Bauman (@standupecon) and Alan Durning on April 1, 2014 at 6:35 am

1. All You Need to Know About BC’s Carbon Tax Shift in Five Charts The revolution, six years in.

Alan Durning and Yoram Bauman (@standupecon) on March 11, 2014 at 6:30 am