Sacramento Bee: Business leaders prefer a carbon fee on climate change

Yes, we should be excited that leaders from 193 nations put their heads and hearts together in Paris. They made important progress in staving off the worsening damage threatened by climate change. As a former ambassador, I relish such cooperation.

Durango Herald: Republicans can support a carbon tax

Most people probably would agree with The Herald Dec. 20 editorial’s statement that a carbon tax, “no matter how logical, is a nonstarter with the Republican Party.” But after talking with 175 members of Congress or their aides, most of them Republicans, I believe there is a way to win GOP support. 

Send Congress to the Beach

Members of Congress have many invitations to go to nice places, a number of them in the Sunshine State. Someone needs to get them to Miami Beach, fast. Granted, putting that many people on planes would run up a serious carbon budget, but after a couple of hours on the ground (in waterproof boots), it would be a whole lot tougher for any of them to call climate change a “hoax.”