Recognizing that a federal cap-and-trade program will affect the tax system both directly and indirectly, this paper will consider how the direct and indirect tax issues should be resolved. Direct tax issues include how emissions credits should be treated, the tax consequences of the receipt of...

Introduction : a bird's-eye view of environmental taxation / Janet E. Milne -- The curious origins of the major U.S. tax incentives for oil and gas producers / George K. Yin -- Problems, policies, and politics of taxing energy in the U.S. / Michael Graetz -- The tax treatment of coal / Roberta...

This Article will argue that implementing a carbon tax in the United States will afford the best protection against climate change. Economists generally consider pollution taxes to be the "gold standard" of market-based instruments. Cap-and-trade systems are less effective and more complex to...