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Douglas A. Kysar: Parlez-Vous Cap-and-Trade?

2012-05-23T18:00:31Z

California's goal is not merely to create linkages with foreign cap-and-trade systems, but also to inspire and cajole its own federal government, and indeed the world, to act.

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Bill Chameides: U.S. Acid Rain Regulations: Did They Work?

2012-05-10T16:19:45Z

U.S. acid rain regulations have worked. What's more, they didn't seem to get in the way of the country's longest economic expansion.

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Jake Schmidt: South Korean Government Approves Mandatory Carbon Trading Program

2012-05-09T10:29:04Z

By a vote of 148-0 South Korean lawmakers have just approved a national emissions trading program to reduce the global warming pollution from its largest sectors by 2015.

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Shawn Lawrence Otto: Shocking New Oil Propaganda Plan to Fool Americans

2012-05-08T20:49:15Z

If anyone doubts there is a well-coordinated, well-funded assault on science in America that is designed to fool people, look no further than this plan.

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South Korea Approves Carbon Trading Scheme

2012-05-02T09:54:00Z

(Adds details, quotes, changes dateline) * National CO2 pricing scheme starts 2015 * Covers about 60 percent of nation's...

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Robert Stavins: Low Prices a Problem? Making Sense of Misleading Talk About Cap-and-Trade in Europe and the USA

2012-04-28T14:09:28Z

Since when are low prices considered to be a problem? To understand what's going on, we need to remind ourselves of the purpose (and promise) of a cap-and-trade regime, and then look at what's been happening in the respective markets.

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Mike Sandler: Is Cap and Trade for Pet Projects or for Transformation?

2012-04-17T12:26:20Z

For California to meet its AB32 goals, the state will need to do more than just tinkering with its energy and transportation systems.

Read more: Cap and Dividend, Cap and Trade, ab32, California High Speed Rail, Jerry Brown, Green News

Glenn C. Altschuler: Finance-Seer

2012-04-10T15:09:00Z

Finance and the Good Society is a timely and on the whole persuasive reminder that the institutions of capitalism have the capacity to spread democracy, prosperity and greater equality.

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Jan Mazurek: The Climate Post: EPA Makes Historic Announcement, First Greenhouse Gas Rule for New Power Plants

2012-03-29T16:19:12Z

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released long-awaited greenhouse gas rules for new power plants this week. Using the Clean Air Act, the...

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Inhofe, EPA Head Share Unlikely Alliance

2012-03-16T12:40:59Z

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), a longtime foe of the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to cap carbon dioxide emissions, praised the agency's Adm...

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Jonathan Weiler: The Cluelessness of Thomas Friedman

2012-03-14T15:33:47Z

Tom Friedman's column today calls for re-thinking American capitalism by striking a series of "grand bargains," and as usual his analysis of what stands in the way of such grand bargains bears no relationship to the realities of American politics.

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Robert Stavins: Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation

2012-02-07T18:39:27Z

In 2009, the U.S. Congress considered but ultimately failed to enact legislation aimed at limiting U.S. greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. The bill unde...

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Robert Stavins: Economics of the Environment

2012-01-30T20:08:42Z

The Sixth Edition of Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings has just been published by W. W. Norton & Company of New York and London. Throug...

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Mike Sandler: Rebate Debate Over Utility-Sector Cap & Trade Revenues

2012-01-30T15:24:07Z

If you've been wondering whatever happened to Cap & Trade in California, it's not your fault. The topic has bounced around several state agencies, and it was tied up in the courts for awhile.

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Donald G. Rynne: Putting Cap and Trade Back Into Play

2012-01-23T12:01:20Z

The logic of creating a national cap and trade system is going to become increasingly obvious as new technologies give the power to reduce carbon emissions not only to businesses, industries and utilities, but also to ordinary citizens.

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Toni Johnson: The Debate Over Aviation Emissions

2011-12-30T08:29:26Z

Starting Jan. 1, the EU will require all international air carriers flying in and out of the airports of member states to participate in its carbon trading regime governing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Mason Inman: The Climate Post: As Eurozone Crisis Deepens, Fight to Save Emissions Trading Scheme Begins

2011-12-26T10:05:19Z

Prices in Europe's carbon emissions trading scheme have collapsed this year, in part because there were too many allowances in the system starting off, threatening the future of the whole market.

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Corbin Hiar: How Would a Romney Administration Regulate Air Pollution?

2011-12-23T09:05:48Z

With Mitt Romney at or near the top of the polls in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, the Center for Public Integrity's iWatch News wanted to find out how his administration might regulate toxic air pollutants.

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European Court Approves Carbon Trade For Aviation

2011-12-21T11:28:00Z

AMSTERDAM (AP) — U.S. air carriers failed Wednesday to block an EU law charging airlines flying to Europe for their carbon pollution, yielding to a ...

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Cap and Trade Gives Massachusetts Economy Critical Boost, Defying Naysayers

2011-12-14T14:01:44Z

The state of Massachusetts is quietly reaping the benefits of cap and trade, the much-maligned process for curbing greenhouse gas emissions that feder...

Mason Inman: The Climate Post: Now All GOP Presidential Candidates Express Climate Skepticism

2011-12-09T12:02:02Z

GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman expressed skepticism about the science on climate change, so now all GOP candidates are on the record as doubting either that the planet is clearly warming, or that people are responsible for most of the warming.

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GOP Hopeful's Climate Change Claims Investigated

2011-12-05T19:08:53Z

Newt Gingrich went too far when he claimed that “I’ve never favored cap-and-trade.”

It’s true he’s never favored the approach taken by De...

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Robert Stavins: Can the Durban Climate Negotiations Succeed?

2011-11-28T18:06:22Z

Two weeks of international climate negotiations begin today in Durban, South Africa. These are the Seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP-17) of ...

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Mason Inman: The Climate Post: California Adopts Cap-and-Trade System, Serves as Greenhouse Guinea Pig

2011-11-01T19:01:54Z

After a unanimous vote by the California Air Resources Board, the state adopted the most comprehensive cap-and-trade system in the country, a key part of a 2006 global warming law that had yet to be implemented.

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Robert Stavins: The Promise and Problems of Pricing Carbon

2011-11-01T13:31:26Z

In the U.S., political polarization has decimated what had long been the key political constituency in the Congress for environmental action, namely, the middle, including both moderate Republicans and moderate Democrats.

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