California has a carbon tax
https://www.nrdc.org/media/2007/070402
Supreme Court: Heat-Trapping Carbon Dioxide is Pollution
Rules EPA Has Power to Curb Global Warming Emissions, Repudiates White House Do-Nothing Policy
April 02, 2007
WASHINGTON (April 2, 2007) – After a four-year court battle, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled today 5-4 that carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping emissions are “air pollutants” under the Clean Air Act, and that the U.S. government already has authority to start curbing them.
The Supreme Court’s decision, in Massachusetts v. EPA, repudiates the Bush administration’s do-nothing policy on global warming. For years, the administration has denied carbon dioxide is an air pollutant that EPA can control under the Clean Air Act.
“Today the nation’s highest court has set the White House straight. Carbon dioxide is an air pollutant, and the Clean Air Act gives EPA the power to start cutting the pollution from new vehicles that is wreaking havoc with our climate,” said David Doniger, NRDC’s attorney in the case.
I do my part. I cut down trees that exude CO2 all night long and reduce their input into the atmosphere. Then I repurpose the wood remaining into heat, which helps keep albedo effect/ thermal lag from coming the earth due to solar cycle 23 which is the coolest sunspot cycle since the 1980s. There. I am saving the planet one dastardly CO2 emitting tree at a time. Do I get any credit? Nope!