Cap and Trade

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Climate Legislation: Countdown to the House Showdown

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Politics, Cap and Trade, Economics, Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Policy, Legislation, Global Warming, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Green News

wo recent polls show that a large majority of Americans want the United States to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Today the U.S. House of Representatives just might deliver.

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Cap and Trade What?

Wendy Gordon | Posted 07.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Energy Efficiency, Green Jobs, Aces, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Global Warming Pollution, American Jobs, Global Warming, Green News

Cap and trade is a familiar, effective means to reduce pollution. In the 1990s, the U.S. acid rain cap and trade program achieved 100 percent compliance in reducing sulfur dioxide emissions.

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Reining in Global Warming? Not Without a New Approach to Transportation

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Earl Blumenauer, Aces, Environment, Global Warming, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Transportation, Clean-Tea, Green News

The House of Representatives is preparing to take one of its biggest environmental steps in 20 years.

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Free Allowances to Utilities Are Not Dividends to Consumers

Mike Sandler | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Dividend, Cap and Trade, Utility Companies, Waxman-Markey, Aces, American Clean Energy and Security Act, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Green News

It would be as if the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 legislated monetary policy through 1940. Ridiculous, right? I mean, who had the crystal ball to predict that Great Depression thing?

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Cap and Trade Part 5: What's With the Add-Ons?

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Economics, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Washington Post, Policy, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Legislation, Green News

The Waxman-Markey climate bill is attracting a lot of criticism aimed at the non-cap-and-trade add-ons, which begs the question: are they really necessary?

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Worried About International Competitiveness? Another Look at the Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Proposal

Robert Stavins | Posted 07.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Cap and Trade, Economics, Energy Policy, Global Climate Change, Green News

Like any legislation, the Waxman-Markey bill has its share of flaws. But without evidence of serious action by the U.S., there will be no meaningful international agreement.

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Cap and Trade Part 4: Forests, Farms, and Offsets

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon, Offsets, Cap and Trade, Economics, Climate, Climate Change, Agriculture, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Ecosystems, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Forests, Global Warming, Green News

Many people have a hard time accepting that one can emit CO2 from a power plant in Ohio and offset those emissions by capturing methane on a North Carolina hog farm.

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U.S. Climate Bill Part of Solution but Not the Whole Solution

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Cap and Trade, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, China, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Temperatures, Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Disruption, Green News

Co-written by Bill Chameides and Prasad KasibhatlaThe climate deniers have a new argument: don't pass climate legislation because it doesn't cut emiss...

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Cap and Trade Part 2: Walking the International Tightrope

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Thomas Friedman, Cap and Trade, Global Economy, Economics, Economy, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, United States, Policy, China, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Legislation, Politics, U.S. Congress, Climate Change, Paul Krugman, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, Green News

Any international climate treaty that omits an eventual cap on China's emissions will be a treaty that fails to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference on the climate.

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Apartment Building Associations Promoting Energy Inefficiency?

A. Siegel | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Architecture, Green Building, Energy, Cap and Trade, Building Codes, Apartment Buildigns, Energy Efficiency, Building, Waxman-Markey, Green News

Those struggling to delay action to turn the tides on Global Warming's rising seas come from many angles and bring to the table many truthiness-laden arguments.

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Manufacturing America's Clean Energy Future

Phil Angelides | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Energy Policy, Obama Clean Coal, Cap and Trade, Carbon Emissions, Manufacturing, Clean Energy, Clean Energy Economy, Energy Policy, Green News

If we truly want to curb climate change and fix the economy, we need to adopt a strong carbon cap.

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Cap and Trade Part 1: It's About the Cap, Stupid

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Politics, Cap and Trade, Global Economy, Climate, Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Policy, Business, Legislation, Global Warming, Green News

Where the climate is concerned, don't be fooled: it's ultimately about the "cap" not the "and trade" part.

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Hats off to a Bright Green Future

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green

Read More: UC Berkeley, Green, Cap and Trade, Graduation, Solar, Green News

Roland Saekow, a recent UC Berkeley graduate, helped to pass the Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) legislation on campus, which generates $200,000 annually for green projects at Berkeley.

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The Terminator's Salvation for Allocation in Waxman-Markey

Mike Sandler | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Climate Change, Henry Waxman, ab32, Edward Markey, Waxman-Markey, Governor Schwarzenegger, Terminator Salvation, Green Energy, Green News

A group of robots (lobbyists) run by evil machines (coal-fired powerplants) have infiltrated the highest levels of government (Congress' Energy and Commerce Committee).

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The Wonderful Politics of Cap-and-Trade: A Closer Look at Waxman-Markey

Robert Stavins | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Administration, Cap and Trade, Climate Change, Environmental Politics, Green News

Despite all the hand-wringing in the press and the blogosphere, the politics of cap-and-trade systems are truly quite wonderful, which is why these systems have been used, and used successfully.

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Memo to Media: Don't be Suckered by Bad Analyses from the Breakthrough Institute

Joseph Romm | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Breakthrough Institute, Climate Change, Media, Global Warming, Waxman-Markey, Green News

If you convince the media you are, say, part of the progressive environmental movement, you can get all the media attention you want by then trashing your supposed allies.

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Washington Post Columnist Steven Pearlstein Gets Climate Bill Wrong

David Roberts | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Tax, Waxman Markey Bill, Cap-and-Trade, Waxman-Markey, Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Complementary Policies, Green News

Pearlstein's hyperbole is par for the course these days. Lots of people have taken to exaggerating the complexity and opacity of the Waxman-Markey bill based primarily on its page length.

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GOP: Defending the Little Guy from Corporations Since a Couple Days Ago

David Roberts | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Renewable Energy, Energy, Us Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), Cap and Trade, Republican Party, Republicans, Business News

Republicans are no longer "pro-business," they're pro some businesses, specifically old-line energy companies and utilities.

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Speaking with Americans about Energy and Climate: From the Think Tank to the Kitchen Table

Drew Westen | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Renewable Energy, Polls, Environment, Cap and Trade, Green Energy, Green Energy Economy, Framing, Energy Politics, Politics News

What we found is that when we talk in plain, values-oriented language, we solidly move people, motivate them to action, and beat the industry's well-crafted messages by 20-40 points.

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McCain Abruptly Flips On Climate Change Legislation

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senator John McCain, Energy Bill, Mccain, Climate Change, Cap-and-Trade, John McCain Climate Change, Mccain Twitter, Politics News

Sen. John McCain now appears to oppose climate-change legislation, an abrupt switch that could seriously threaten any movement on such a bill. "Near...

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Indiana Governor: Cap and Trade Unfair to Hoosiers. Really?

Bill Chameides | Posted 06.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Mitch Daniels, Cap and Trade, Waxman-Markey, Economics, Climate Change, Global Warming, Indiana, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Green News

Daniels's argument about cap-and-trade dollars going to social programs that would harm Indiana's economy is specious.

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Do We Have a Cap? Midwest Governors and Climate Leadership

Henry Henderson | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon, Cap and Trade, Midwest Governors Association, Illinois Governor, Minnesota, Carbon Cap, Midwest, Climate, Nrdc, Minneapolis, Governor Quinn, Clean Energy, Climate Legislation, Clean-Energy-Investments, Energy Policy, Green Energy, Green News

D.C. should take notice that the Midwest is opening the road to a reinvigorated economy and clean energy future.

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Does the Public Need to Understand "Cap-and-Trade"?

David Roberts | Posted 06.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Polls, Cap and Trade, Climate Change, Rasmussen Poll, Carbon Emissions, Rasmussen, Green News

Our ship is sinking and we're involved in a heated debate about the kind of wrench to use to tighten the bolts on the lifeboat. How about first we all agree that we need to get off the damn ship?

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Cap-and-Trade vs. Carbon Tax: A Bird in Hand Is Worth Two on Alpha Centauri

David Roberts | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cap and Trade, Kevin Drum, Carbon Tax, Andrew Sullivan, Cap-and-Trade, Renewable Energy, James Hansen, Climate Change, Carbon Taxes, Politics News

grist.orgI find it really hard to believe, but the perennial "carbon tax vs. cap-and-trade" debate is still going on. It goes on and on and on and it ...

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