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February 22, 2013

If China Taxes Carbon, Why Can't We?

Shauna Theel, MediaMatters


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China is reportedly set to impose a modest carbon tax, as well as effectively increase taxes on its coal industry. As the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases continues to take steps to curb climate change, the oft-repeated conservative argument that the U.S. can't act until China does becomes increasingly tenuous.

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TAGGED: carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, global warming, carbon tax, China

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