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Sep 11, 2024 | 
aei.org | Kyle Pomerleau |Shuting Pomerleau
Full Episode 5: AEI’s Kyle Pomerleau and Niskanen’s Shuting Pomerleau join the EcoRight Speaks podcast to discuss the efficiency of a carbon tax, the prospects for Congress considering one, carbon border adjustments, and what lawmaker they’d want to be stuck in an elevator with to give a carbon tax elevator pitch. Full Ep5: Carbon tax policy experts Kyle & Shuting Pomerleau
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
aei.org | James Pethokoukis |Kyle Pomerleau |Shuting Pomerleau |Julia Cataneo
The Biden administration has set ambitious goals to decrease US carbon emissions. Starting in 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act granted clean energy tax credits to businesses in hopes of encouraging a greener economy. Kyle and Shuting Pomerleau see a carbon tax as a superior approach. To offset any regressive effects, they propose a revenue swap, using the income from the tax to directly finance an expanded child tax credit.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
aei.org | James Pethokoukis |Kyle Pomerleau |Shuting Pomerleau
The Biden administration has set ambitious goals to decrease US carbon emissions. Starting in 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act granted clean energy tax credits to businesses in hopes of encouraging a greener economy. Kyle and Shuting Pomerleau see a carbon tax as a superior approach. To offset any regressive effects, they propose a revenue swap, using the income from the tax to directly finance an expanded child tax credit.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Kyle Pomerleau |Shuting Pomerleau
Most taxpayers will face income tax increases in 2026, as most of the individual income tax provisions in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act are set to expire. Congress will likely prevent that, but extending the tax cuts would substantially increase the federal budget deficit. Lawmakers should consider a carbon tax as an alternate source of revenue to help pay for the extension. Extending the TCJA would greatly reduce federal revenue.
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May 9, 2024 | 
niskanencenter.org | Shuting Pomerleau
In a recent TIME interview, top EU climate official Wopke Hoekstra speaks in-depth about climate policies and business support. He emphasizes that EU policymakers should make sure the bloc’s climate policies do not hurt EU producers’ competitiveness. Top areas of concern for Hoekstra include electric vehicles infrastructure and EU’s competition with China in clean energy manufacturing. These are all valid issues.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
aei.org | Shuting Pomerleau |Ari N. Schulman |M. Anthony Mills |Roger Pielke Jr
When natural disasters happen, climate change is often blamed as a culprit. But attribution research actually shows that infrastructure, institutions, and technology are more important factors in how costly weather is to human communities. This panel will examine the tension between the rhetoric and reality of extreme-weather attribution and what this means for policymaking and the future of regions most vulnerable to climate extremes. Submit questions to or on Twitter with #AskAEIClimate.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
niskanencenter.org | Shuting Pomerleau
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently approved rules requiring large publicly-traded companies to disclose certain climate-related information. These new rules aim to leverage investors to encourage public companies to address climate risks and reduce emissions. SEC’s rules require companies to disclose two broad categories of information:Any material climate risks a company is subject to and its plans and actions to address them. Scope 1 and scope 2 emissions of the businesses.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
niskanencenter.org | Shuting Pomerleau
Climate and trade policies are gaining traction as lawmakers look to address emissions embedded in globally traded goods that are subject to different jurisdictions’ climate regulations. The European Union (EU) is taking the lead by implementing the world’s first carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM). In the U.S., the recently introduced Clean Competition Act and Foreign Pollution Fee Act aim to address climate and trade.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
niskanencenter.org | Shuting Pomerleau
While the Biden Administration largely relies on massive tax incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act to address carbon dioxide emissions, it adopts a mixed strategy to address another potent greenhouse gas: methane. This approach includes a methane tax, methane regulations, and technology funding, which marks the first time the U.S. federal government has levied a direct tax on greenhouse gas emissions.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
niskanencenter.org | Shuting Pomerleau
In 2018, the Trump administration started a trade war with China by enacting multiple phases of tariffs under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 to counter China’s “illicit trade practices.” The Biden administration left most of the China tariffs in place, and its expected assessments of their results are overdue. Over $300 billion in Chinese imports are subject to Section 301 tariffs. These include consumer goods, automobile vehicles, and industrial materials.
