Eliminating carbon emissions from cars and trucks in Massachusetts right away would require taxing gasoline at more than $14 a gallon, a study from the Beacon Hill Institute has found.
Such a proposal is not on the table. But the authors suggest the numbers point to a harsh reality: Pursuing longer-term climate-change benchmarks toward net-zero carbon emissions will be harmful along the way and ultimately unattainable.
The Washington Post got something wrong about President Donald Trump.
The newspaper issued a lengthy correction to a January 2021 quoting Trump as telling an elections investigator in Georgia "to find the fraud" and that she would be a hero if she did it.