NTJ Forum: Environmental Tax Policy in the U.S.

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The Editors of the National Tax Journal (NTJ) are excited to continue our webinar series that periodically features some of the NTJ’s recently published articles.

Our next webinar will comprise four papers from the Forum of the March 2025 issue. Climate change represents one of the most pressing challenges of our time.  Rising temperatures, shifting weather patterns, and more frequent and severe weather events underscore the urgent need for policymakers to find ways to drastically reduce our carbon footprint. In recent years, global efforts to address these challenges had gained momentum – from international agreements like the Paris Agreement to the implementation of national carbon taxes.

In the U.S., the largest federal investment in climate action to date came through the landmark legislation contained in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022. When originally scored, the IRA’s energy and climate policies were projected to cost roughly $400 billion through 2031, largely through the expansion of tax subsidies. However, there was much uncertainty around the implementation of IRA’s provisions and how individuals and businesses would respond, creating a wide range of potential economic and environmental impacts. And the future of IRA’s provisions and other clean energy initiatives are even more uncertain today.

Please join us as David Weisbach (University of Chicago Law School) moderates a discussion with Joseph Aldy (Harvard Kennedy School), Lucas Davis (UC Berkeley, Haas), Roberta Mann (University of Oregon School of Law, emerita), Tracey Roberts (Samford U, Cumberland School of Law), and Jim Sallee (UC Berkeley, Haas) on the ongoing challenges of environmental tax policy in the US.

Davis’s paper is coauthored with Severin Borenstein (Berkeley, Haas).  

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	Moderator: David Weisbach (University of Chicago Law School)
	Jim Sallee (UC Berkeley, Haas)
	Tracey Roberts (Samford U, Cumberland School of Law)
	Joseph Aldy (Harvard Kennedy School)
	Lucas Davis (UC Berkeley, Haas)
	Roberta Mann (University of Oregon School of Law, emerita)