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Resources Magazine: Ensuring Competitiveness under a US Carbon Tax

Tax exemptions, industry rebates, and border tax adjustments can help protect the competitiveness of industries affected by a carbon tax, but they are not equally efficient at achieving economic and environmental goals. In the latest issue of Resources, Richard Morgenstern, Nathan Richardson, and I examine the issues. Read more here.

Rare Earths: A China Syndrome?

In the fall of 2009 in the South China Sea a maritime territorial dispute involving Japan’s arrest of a Chinese trawler captain prompted China, in retaliation, to suspend export of rare earths to Japan. Rare earths are metallic ores whose unique magnetic properties are vital features of wind turbines, hybrid engines, computers and many other […]