ROLLING BACK TRUMP’S METHANE RULES ISN’T ENOUGH: WE NEED A METHANE TAX TO BUY TIME TO DECARBONIZE

Payne Institute Faculty Fellow Ben Gilbert, Mark Agerton, and Jim Krane write about how global CO2 releases have risen by more than 50% since 1992, the year of the U.N.’s first climate summit. Three decades of failure show that stanching CO2 emissions is arguably the toughest collective problem humanity has ever faced.  While taming carbon is crucial, that process shouldn’t delay Americans from choking off emissions of a much more powerful greenhouse gas: methane.  July 12, 2021.