Cap and Trade

Waxman-Markey Property Rights to the Sky ? Part 3 Interview with Economist James Quilligan

Christiana Wyly | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cap and Trade, Global Economy, Edward Markey, Economy, United Nations, Waxman-Markey, Oil, Oil Prices, The Commons, Global Financial Crisis, Climate Change, Henry Waxman, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, James Quilligan, Global Warming, Politics News

Greening all of the world's businesses and our consumer habits through the economic signals of the marketplace will not change the energy base of civilization from fossil fuel.

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Green News Report - July 2, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Exxon Mobil, Epa, Green News Report, Exxon Valdez, Bush Administration, Waxman-Markey, California Emissions Standards, Green News, Environment, Fox News, Coal Ash, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Food Recall, Gray Wolves Endangered Species, Forests, Republicans, Green News

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: California wins one for a change; Where's the beef? Recalled!; Did EPA suppress study from global warming skeptic?... PLUS:...

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Obama's Agenda: Hope, Change and Lobby-Centricity

Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Cabinet, House of Representatives, Cap and Trade, Democratic Congress, Congress, Capitol Hill, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Progressives, President Obama, Obama Administration, Obama, Progressive Movement, Democrats, Banking Industry, Cramdown, Barack Obama, Lobbyist, Obama White House, Senate, Cap-and-Trade, David Brooks, Health Care Reform, Special Interests, K Street, Health Care, Obama Lobbyists, Politics News

Obama's self-imposed rule against lobbyists in his administration, and the method whereby he is now implementing his progressive agenda, hews toward a rather perverse irony, if not hypocrisy.

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Almost, But Not Quite, Mr. President

Carl Pope | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Climate Bill, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Waxman-Markey, Green News

The House bill sets up a price mechanism but then allows too many potential ways around it. It invests in clean energy but also invests too much in keeping dirty technologies going.

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Liberal Groups Vexed By Obama Knocking Climate Bill

The Plumline | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: World Trade Organization, Public Citizen, Trade, Liberals, Cap-and-Trade, Climate Change, President Obama, Environment, Obama, Protectionism, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama, Politics News

Liberal groups allied with the White House are fuming -- mostly in private -- about some comments President Obama made yesterday attacking a provision...

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Climate Expert: GOP Distorted My Findings On Cap-And-Trade Cost

The Grist | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cap and Trade, Mit, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Pollution, Cap-and-Trade, Climate Change, Politics News

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...

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Climate Bill Winners & Losers

AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: House, Cap and Trade, Senate, Climate Bill Winners and Losers, Barack Obama, Climate Bill, Green News

NEW YORK — In addition to raising energy prices, the climate legislation that's winding through Congress would create a parallel financial syste...

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National Climate Change Policy: A Quick Look Back at Waxman-Markey and the Road Ahead

Robert Stavins | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Administration, Cap and Trade, Environmental Policy, Waxman-Markey, Green News

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.

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The Carbon Dioxide Credit Program

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Global Warming, Carbon Dioxide Credit Program, Green News

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?

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Boehner Calls Climate Bill "A Pile Of Shit"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cap and Trade, Boehner Climate Bill Full of Shit, Boehner Cap and Trade, John Boehner, Boehner Climate Bill, Boehner Climate Bill Shit, Politics News

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...

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Climactic But Not Just Because Of The Climate

Harry Moroz | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Green Jobs, Economy, Employment, Climate, Carbon Dioxide, Energy Efficiency, Cap and Trade, Energy, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Environmental Protection Agency, Politics News

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.

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Cap And Trade Vote To Happen In The House Today

RTT News | Posted 07.27.2009 | Home

Read More: Cap and Trade Vote, Cap and Trade, Climate Change, Home News

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 ...

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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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