{"id":234,"date":"2026-11-03T00:50:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T00:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2026-11-03T00:50:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T00:50:42","slug":"william-nordhaus-pioneered-putting-a-price-on-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"William Nordhaus Pioneered Putting a Price on Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economist William Nordhaus built his career around the idea that placing a price on pollution was the most effective tool for combating climate change. His vision, however, ran headlong into fierce opposition from the fossil fuel industry and a broader anti-tax movement that worked to undermine the approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-source\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/11\/02\/climate\/william-nordhaus-carbon-tax-american-business.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times \u2014 William Nordhaus Pioneered Putting a Price on Pollution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-credit\"><em>AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source&#x27;s. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist William Nordhaus built his career around the idea that placing a price on pollution was the most effective tool for combating climate change. His<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[79,78,81,82,80],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-carbon-tax","tag-climate-change","tag-economics","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-pollution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}