Carbon Tax Discussed on WHYY's Radio Times

Susan Phillips

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Susan Phillips tells stories about the consequences of political decisions on people's every day lives. She has worked as a reporter for WHYY since 2004. Susan's coverage of the 2008 Presidential election resulted in a story on the front page of the New York Times. In 2010 she traveled to Haiti to cover the earthquake. That same year she produced an award-winning series on Pennsylvania's natural gas rush called "The Shale Game." She received a 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award for her work covering natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania. She has also won several Edward R. Murrow awards for her work with StateImpact. In 2013/14 she spent a year at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow. She has also been a Metcalf Fellow, an MBL Logan Science Journalism Fellow and reported from Marrakech on the 2016 climate talks as an International Reporting Project Fellow. A graduate of Columbia School of Journalism, she earned her Bachelor's degree in International Relations from George Washington University.

December 7, 2012 | 1:44 PM

As climate talks in Doha, Qatar go into overtime, countries still seem divided over how to reduce global warming and pay for its costs to developing nations. Today on WHYY’s Radio Times, host Marty Moss-Coane speaks to University of Chicago Law professor David Weisbach about prospects, or lack there of, for a carbon tax. Weisbach discusses how such a tax could impact the nation’s debt, economy and environment. To listen, click here.