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Distributional impacts of carbon pricing: A general equilibrium approach  with micro data for households / Gilbert E. Metcalf, Sebastian Rausch,  John Reilly, VoxEU.org, 10/06/2011   http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/6629Many policy proposals to limit greenhouse-gas emissions revolve  around efforts to tax carbon emissions. But many studies point out that  such energy taxes are regressive. This column models the distributional  impacts of carbon pricing on over 15,000 US households, challenging the  view that the policy by itself is regressive...