2.1.5 Proposed Carbon Pricing Schemes (US)

LPDD Recommendation: “Congress should consider adopting a carbon tax that begins at $25 per metric ton, increases over time based on rising damage from climate change, and the revenues from which are spent for some combination of economic efficiency, income redistribution, and climate policy purposes.”

Proposed Foreign Pollution Fee Act

A fee on imports of certain industrial and manufacturing goods would increase as the difference in embodied pollution widens between a foreign country's products and U.S. counterparts.

Portland’s Proposed Carbon Tax

This first-in-the-nation proposal would establish a $25 per-ton fee on GHG emissions from facilities in Portland with emissions of 2,500 metric tons of CO2-e per year or greater.

Proposed Bipartisan Climate Roadmap

Proposed Roadmap supported by prominent corporations and NGOs calls for a rising carbon fee, carbon dividends for all Americans, deregulation in certain cases, and a border carbon adjustment. 

Transportation and Climate Initiative

A regional collaboration of 12 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia that seeks to improve transportation, develop the clean energy economy and reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector.

RFF Carbon Pricing Bill Tracker

Compares all of the carbon pricing bills introduced in the 116th Congress to see where there is and is not agreement on the array of policy options for implementing a price on carbon dioxide emissions.

Massachusetts’ proposed H2810

Massachusetts’ proposed H2810 puts a price on carbon pollution and invests 30% of all revenue ($400–600 million per year) in local clean transportation, resiliency, and renewable energy projects.