Recent failures of (carbon tax proposals https://time.com/5447748/washington-state-carbon-tax-climate-change/) and (cap and trade program proposals . https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/clash-over-cap-and-trade-in-oregon-reflects-hard-path-of-carbon-pricing-in-pacific-northwest/) to gain sufficient political support are causing environmental economists to shift their thinking on preferred policy. There is a thought that any policy is better than no policy. And what good is a carbon tax if it works in theory but never merits democratic consideration? There is concern that incentive based schemes --which were supposed to avoid such political contentiousness-- are just simply unpopular.
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