LPDD

Pathway 2.

Cross-Cutting Approaches to Reducing Emissions → Carbon Pricing

2.1.3 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.”

Portland’s Proposed Carbon Tax

Local Governments
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

Congress
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

States and State Governments
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

Congress
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

State Legislatures
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.

Virginia proposed RGGI regulation

State Agencies
A proposed ‘Regulation for Emissions Trading’ was approved by the Virginia State Air Pollution Control Board. The regulation proposed a a system that would be in line with many of RGGI’s major design features, with the aim to link with RGGI by 2020.