Obama says he would like a price on carbon
President Obama hopes to one day have a price on carbon emissions as a policy to address climate change, he said in an interview for the Showtime documentary miniseries "Years of Living Dangerously."
Referring to a 1990s cap-and-trade program used to reduce emissions that contribute to acid rain, Obama told the New York Times' Thomas Friedman, who conducted the interview, "You can't keep dumping it out in the atmosphere and making everybody else pay for it. So if there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions."
The Obama administration for the past few years has fought off questions about whether it planned to impose a carbon tax -- officials said it wouldn't happen. The existing power plant carbon emissions rule the Environmental Protection Agency proposed last week does leave states with an option to price carbon, such as through a cap-and-trade system like one currently operating among nine Northeastern states, though it doesn't require it.
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