A Price
on Carbon
The single most powerful
tool we have to lower
America's carbon pollution
3 Main Goals
Topic 1
Topic 2
Topic 3
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Main Benefits
Net zero by 2050
Saves Lives
Affordable Clean Energy
Puts Money in Your Pocket
Messaging Index
Net Zero by 2050 ………………………………………………………………………… 5
Affordable Clean Energy ……………………………………………………………….. 9
Saves Lives ……………………………………………………………………………….. 13
Creates Jobs ………………………………………………………………………….….. 19
Money In Your Pocket ……………………………………………………………...…….23
Business Preferred ……………………………………………………………………… 27
Strong Economy …………………………………………………………....…………….. 29
Support For A Price On Carbon Quotes ……………………………………………….33
The United States sets out on the road to cut greenhouse gases in half by the end of this decade. That’s where we’re headed as a nation, and that’s what we can do, if we take action to build an economy that’s not only more prosperous, but healthier, fairer, and cleaner for the entire planet.
President Biden
Earth Day Summit 2021
Net Zero by 2050
A strong, economy-wide price on carbon could reduce America’s carbon pollution 50% by 2030, putting us on track to reach net zero by 2050.
Net Zero by 2050
A price on carbon acts fast to reduce carbon pollution. We'll start seeing tangible results in as little as nine months.
Net Zero by 2050
A robust, economy-wide price on carbon is the single most powerful tool we can use to reduce carbon pollution.
Carbon pricing is a tried and tested tool: More than 45 countries have already put a price on carbon pollution and have started seeing strong results.
Net Zero by 2050
Affordable Clean Energy
Affordable Clean Energy
When government puts a price on carbon, businesses will respond with innovation to make clean energy more abundant, affordable and reliable.
Affordable Clean Energy
With a carbon tax, the market decides what the best clean energy solutions are, instead of the government picking winners and losers.
Affordable Clean Energy
A carbon price will help make America the undisputed world leader in clean energy.
Saves Lives
Saves Lives
New research shows that air pollution is twice as bad for health than previously understood. Poor air quality is responsible for as many as 1 in 10 American deaths today, and sickens thousands more.
Saves Lives
Air quality responds quickly when we stop burning fossil fuels. Because a carbon price has a quick impact, it will start saving up to 90,000 American lives/year very quickly.
Saves Lives
This policy will save lives and improve health in communities of color who have suffered the worst impacts of air pollution, including increased vulnerability to severe COVID-19 complications.
Saves Lives
A price on carbon will keep our families healthier at all ages. Air pollution affects nearly every major organ in the body, hurting quality of life at all ages, especially childhood. It will prevent 3.5 million hospital and ER visits, including 50,000 visits from children due to asthma over the next 50 years.
Saves Lives
A price on carbon will keep us able to work and care for our families. It will restore an estimated 300 million workdays that would otherwise be lost due to air pollution and the impacts of extreme heat.
Creates Jobs
Creates Jobs
A carbon price will Incentivize innovation by America’s businesses, creating
millions of new jobs that will transform our economy and put Americans back to work.
Creates Jobs
A carbon price will Incentivize innovation by America’s businesses, creating
millions of new jobs that will transform our economy and put Americans back to work.
Creates Jobs
A majority of clean energy and energy efficiency jobs are local and cannot be outsourced or automated.
Money in Your Pocket
Money in Your Pocket
Under this policy, wealthier Americans will be able to manage their exposure to higher prices by adjusting what they buy. Carbon costs are determined by behavior, not income.
Money in Your Pocket
The carbon cashback will make this policy popular with Americans and therefore more politically feasible.
Money in Your Pocket
This policy directly helps families of color financially. Specifically, 91% of Asian households, 90% of Black households and 93% of Latino households will come out ahead or essentially break even.
Business Preferred
Business Preferred
Businesses prefer this policy because they remain financially stable while they adjust their operations, thanks to a predictable and gradually rising price on carbon.
Strong Economy
Strong Economy
This policy is the best for America’s economy because it is the most cost-efficient way to lower America’s pollution.
Strong Economy
This policy will save the American economy $837 billion each year by 2050. Climate inaction will cost America up to 14% of its GDP by 2050.
Strong Economy
This policy will encourage other countries around the world to adopt their own zero carbon initiatives. They will not be able to hide behind U.S. inaction or avoid taking action due to pressure from international trade.
Support for a price on carbon
Quotes
Quote Index
Government Officials (Current) ………………………………………………… 35
Members of Congress (Current) ………………………………………………… 44
Business Owners/CEOs …………………………………………………………… 73
Organizations ……………………………………………………………………….. 81
Miscellaneous Influential Folks …………………………………………………. 88
Government Officials
Quotes
I believe that climate change is a serious problem demanding an immediate policy response and a carbon tax offers the most cost-effective lever to reduce carbon emissions at the scale and speed that is necessary.
Janet Yellen, Treasury Secretary
Members of Congress (Current)
Quotes
We need to create incentives for the private sector to really do some investing in reducing emissions. I’m open to ideas that would make that happen and the carbon tax, carbon dividend, is such an idea.
Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT)
Support for a price on carbon
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Business Owners/CEOs
Quotes
The real right way to correct [the subsidy] would be to establish a carbon tax. If you ask any economist they will tell you that is the obvious thing to do, put the correct price on carbon because we currently have an error in the economy which misprices carbon at zero or something closer to zero. It is a fundamental economic error.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla
My top recommendation, honestly, would be just add a carbon tax...The economy works great. Prices and money are just information....If the price is wrong, the economy doesn’t do the right thing.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla
Organizations
Quotes
As lawmakers move forward, we urge them to focus their efforts on developing market-based mechanisms for reducing carbon emissions that are durable and can garner bipartisan support.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Miscellaneous Influential Folks
Quotes
Support for a price on carbon
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
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