The Carbon Pricing Politics of Methane: The Minor Miracle of the US Methane Fee
メタンの炭素価格政治：米国メタン賦課金の小さな奇跡 (AI 翻訳)
Nikolai Drahos
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日本語
米国連邦レベルでの炭素価格導入は困難とされてきたが、2022年インフレ抑制法（IRA）にメタン賦課金が含まれた。本稿は、関係者インタビューに基づき、この初めての連邦炭素価格制度が政治的に実現可能となった4つの条件（産業分裂、効果的な理念的議論、立法経路、静かな政治）を明らかにする。
English
Despite repeated failures, the US adopted a federal methane fee in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Based on insider interviews, this study identifies four enabling conditions for political feasibility: industry division, effective ideational arguments, a conducive legislative pathway, and quiet politics, offering a contingent view of carbon pricing opportunities.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本では炭素価格導入が議論されているが、政治的な実現可能性に関する本分析は、日本の政策設計（例：GXリーグ、化石燃料賦課金）にも示唆を与える。特に業界の分断や静かな政治の役割は、日本での導入戦略を考える上で重要。
In the global GX context
This paper contributes to global carbon pricing scholarship by detailing how a politically unpopular instrument was enacted in a hostile environment. It offers a framework for analyzing carbon pricing feasibility beyond the US, relevant for ISSB and transition finance discussions.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Provides a theoretically grounded case study of carbon pricing political feasibility, expanding conditional factors beyond conventional wisdom.
🏛政策担当者:Highlights conditions under which carbon pricing can become politically viable, offering strategic lessons for introducing similar mechanisms.
📄 Abstract（原文）
Abstract Carbon pricing attempts have been repeatedly thwarted at the federal level in the United States. Yet, in 2022, the United States adopted a federal price on oil and gas methane emissions as part of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), imposing a cost on an industry with significant political clout using a politically unpopular policy instrument. What made the first US federal carbon pricing scheme politically feasible? Using interviews with key insiders in the IRA negotiations, I provide the first study of the political history behind the methane fee. Synthesizing and expanding on the extant literature, I suggest that four enabling conditions rendered carbon pricing politically feasible: industry division, effective ideational arguments, a conducive legislative pathway, and quiet politics. While carbon pricing is sometimes written off as a political nonstarter, theorizing political feasibility as the product of multiple, conditional factors recognizes that opportunities for pricing reforms—though circumscribed—are also contingent.
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- crossref https://doi.org/10.1162/glep.a.774first seen 2026-06-23 06:11:24
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