People's Republic of Boulder considers raising carbon tax to fund climate programs

In 2002, the Boulder City Council passed a resolution agreeing to meet the Kyoto Protocol, which obligates the city to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.

Seven years later, the city's Office of Environmental Affairs, which uses the revenue from the 2006 carbon tax to battle emissions, has announced that without additional funding and programs, Boulder will only make it a third of the way to its Kyoto Goal. Read more.