Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Charles Komanoff

Quebec Approves Carbon Tax on Fuels to Cut Greenhouse Gases

By Jason Varone | Jun 14, 2007 | 5 Comments

Quebec will become the first Canadian province to impose a carbon tax on energy producers. Bloomberg reports: The provincial cabinet approved the tax in Quebec City yesterday, according to a statement on the Natural Resources Ministry Web site. Refiners including Valero Energy Corp.’s Ultramar unit and Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s Canadian unit will start paying […]

Support Builds for Carbon Taxes Over “Cap and Trade”

By Jason Varone | Apr 5, 2007 | 3 Comments

The Independent reports that European CO2 emissions are rising not falling, casting doubt on the EU’s touted Emissions Trading Scheme: Europe’s big polluters pumped more climate-changing gases into the atmosphere in 2006 than during the previous year, according to figures that show the EU’s carbon trading system failing to deliver curbs. Critics said the data […]

Launching the Campaign for Carbon Taxes

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 22, 2007 | 4 Comments

Streetsblog contributor Charles Komanoff, along with Daniel Rosenblum, today announce the foundation of their new organization, the Carbon Tax Center. The Center’s mission is "to educate and inform policymakers, opinion leaders and the public, including grassroots organizations, about the benefits of and critical need for significant, rising and equitable taxes on carbon emissions from fossil […]

NYPD Has Spent $1.32M to Suppress a Monthly Bike Ride

By Charles Komanoff | Nov 16, 2006 | 18 Comments

Charles Komanoff, flanked by Marquez Claxton and Norman Siegel, at City Hall this morning. Time’s Up took its campaign for safe bicycling into the economic arena this morning with release of a report documenting the Bloomberg administration’s squandering of New Yorkers’ tax dollars in suppressing the Critical Mass bike rides. With the City Hall steps […]

Pricing for Sustainability

By Aaron Donovan | Oct 2, 2006 | 6 Comments

In his weekly radio address yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg discussed some steps his administration is taking toward a sustainable future, including the creation of an Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, and a Sustainability Advisory Board, which held its first meeting last week. Long-term sustainability is of course right up Streetsblog’s alley. Correspondent Charles Komanoff donned his […]

Charles Komanoff’s “Fuel Tax Magic”

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 28, 2006 | No Comments

New York City economist and activist Charles Komanoff has been focused lately on developing and promoting the idea of a "carbon tax." Carbon taxes are still still very much considered fringe economic theory and politically unviable, though, as you read Komanoff’s latest essay in Grist, you have to wonder how long that will last. The […]