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Aseem Prakash

FILE - This April 2, 2010 file photo shows a Tesoro Corp. refinery, including a gas flare flame that is part of normal plant operations, in Anacortes, Wash. In the 2016 election, voters in Washington state rejected an initiative that would have taxed carbon emissions from fossil fuels such as coal and gasoline. () (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

A better way of regulating carbon would change the tired environment-versus-economy debate

Nives Dolsak, Aseem Prakash
A woman holds her breath as she walks near a temporary garbage dump in the neighbourhood of Jdeideh, northeast of the Lebanese capital Beirut on September 1, 2016. Lebanon has been going through a garbage crisis caused by the closure of its main landfill more than a year ago. / AFP / ANWAR AMRO (Photo credit should read ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images) (Afp/getty Images)

This year was an environmental wake-up call: U.S. green movement needs a new message

Nives Dolsak, Aseem Prakash