he experts at the MIT Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Change have long been advocates of cap-and-trade as an appropriate policy instru...
AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green
NEW YORK — In addition to raising energy prices, the climate legislation that's winding through Congress would create a parallel financial syste...
Robert Stavins | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green
The Waxman‑Markey bill has its share of flaws, but it represents a reasonable starting point for Senate deliberation on what can become a national climate policy.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green
Anyone with any knowledge of this subject will tell you that the carbon tax is more sensible than cap and trade. So why is cap and trade being foisted on the public?
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.29.2009 | Politics
On Friday, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) delayed a vote on the American Clean Energy and Security Act with a nearly hour-long speech. He...
Harry Moroz | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
The American Clean Energy and Security Act establishes a market-based cap-and-trade system to limit emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide.
RTT News | Posted 07.27.2009 | Home
he House of Representatives is expected to vote shortly on a measure that would radically redefine the way the country uses and pays for energy. GET ...
Bill Chameides | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green
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.
Wendy Gordon | Posted 07.26.2009 | Green
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.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green
The House of Representatives is preparing to take one of its biggest environmental steps in 20 years.
Mike Sandler | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green
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?
Bill Chameides | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green
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?
Robert Stavins | Posted 07.20.2009 | Green
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.
Bill Chameides | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green
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.
Bill Chameides | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green
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...
Bill Chameides | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green
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.
A. Siegel | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green
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.
Phil Angelides | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green
If we truly want to curb climate change and fix the economy, we need to adopt a strong carbon cap.
Bill Chameides | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green
Where the climate is concerned, don't be fooled: it's ultimately about the "cap" not the "and trade" part.
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green
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.
Mike Sandler | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green
A group of robots (lobbyists) run by evil machines (coal-fired powerplants) have infiltrated the highest levels of government (Congress' Energy and Commerce Committee).
Robert Stavins | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green
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.
Joseph Romm | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green
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.
David Roberts | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green
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.
The Grist | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics