Carbon Fee and Dividend Is Proposed by Conservative Economists
Background . U. S. President Donald J. Trump has called global warming a hoax, and opposes policies that would combat its causes and effects. He has assembled a cabinet whose members, as heads of departments that are relevant to this issue, hold opinions that are consistent with his. They seek to reverse the policies of the Obama administration that mitigate global warming and its harms. Carbon Fee and Dividend . On February 8, 2017, three conservative economists who held high level positions in earlier Republican administrations published the op-ed “A Conservative Case for Climate Action” in the New York Times . The authors are Martin S. Feldstein, formerly the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan; Ted Halstead, the founder and chief executive of the Climate Leadership Council; and N. Gregory Mankiw, formerly the chairman under President George W. Bush. The op-ed is based on a more extensive paper made ...