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How to Sell a Carbon Tax. And Not In Oregon, conservative politicians literally run and hide from carbon pricing. How did BC’s similar party make it law? Erik Neumann Today | Jefferson Public Radio / InvestigateWest Erik Neumann is a radio producer and writer. The story was published as partner of a partnership with InvestigateWest. SHARES A man holding a sign opposing Oregon’s climate bill talks to fellow rallygoers from the roof of a truck at an event on the Oregon Capitol steps in Salem, June 27, 2019. Photo by Bryan M. Vance, OPB. [Editor’s note: Thi...

Originally published on May 10, 2021 4:55 am In 2019 and again in 2020, Oregon Republicans walked out of the state Legislature to prevent a vote on cap-and-trade climate bills. The legislation was meant to drive down the state’s carbon emissions, but Republicans feared the bills would place the greatest burden of higher fuel prices on sparsely populated rural communities. In 2008, the center-right party in British Columbia, actually named the Liberal Party, created a carbon tax to reduce emissions. More than a decade later, it has helped lower emissions without disproportionately hurting ...

Oregon Democrats try to learn from British Columbia’s carbon tax B.C.’s tax was backed by conservatives and cut emissions without harming rural communities. Can it work elsewhere? by A man on stilts wears state of Jefferson regalia at a Timber Unity rally in front of the Oregon Capitol in Salem, Feb. 6, 2020. (Bradley W. Parks/OPB) This report is contributed by Jefferson Public Radio, a partner in Getting to Zero, InvestigateWest’s yearlong  reporting initiative. In 2019 and again in 2020, Oregon Republicans walked out of the state Legislature to prevent a vote on cap-and-trade clima...

 Dissident Voice: here and here. I even did a review of that documentary,  The People VS Agent Orange, which highlights Tran To Nga‘s fight in France — “Eternal Impunity of Capitalism’s Crimes“. Here’s one passage from that story I wrote: Dr. James Clary was with the Air Force in Vietnam, which ran the program. He was ordered to dump the computer and erase all memory. Instead, he printed out a stack of documents two feet high – missions, sorties, coordinates, dates, gallons dropped throughout all of Southeast Asia and Laos. “We had the information coming from Dow that the...

Can Oregon Democrats learn from B.C.’s carbon tax? By ERIK NEUMANNMay 12, 2021 GMT In 2019 and again in 2020, Oregon Republicans walked out of the state Legislature to prevent a vote on cap-and-trade climate bills. The legislation was meant to drive down the state’s carbon emissions, but Republicans feared the bills would place the greatest burden of higher fuel prices on sparsely populated rural communities. In 2008, the center-right party in British Columbia, actually named the Liberal Party, created a carbon tax to reduce emissions. More than a decade later, it has helped lower emissi...