Making Fossil Fuels Pay for Their Damage
Legal Planet
AUGUST 18, 2022
I want to talk about some options for using the tax system to change that. It produces only about $700 million per year. Production and combustion of fossil fuels imposes enormous costs on society, which the industry doesn’t pay for. But the tax is hopelessly inadequate , merely pennies per ton of coal.
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