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Next on climate: Improve Waxman-Markey innovation provisions in Senate 0
Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago
Few aspects of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill matter more than the insufficient degree to which it applies future revenue to clean energy innovation. Quite simply, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) makes only a modest start toward promoting the technology breakthroughs that will make clean energy cheap, reduce carbon emissions, and create thousands of cleantech jobs.
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Brookings: Fears that cap and trade will hurt farmers are baseless 4
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks agoA new economic study reveals that concerns a cap on global warming pollution could hurt American agriculture are unfounded. As the Waxman-Markey green economy legislation (H.R. 2454) moves toward passage in the House of Representatives, the farm lobby and rural officials have questioned the bill's costs to farmers.
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Memo to media
No, Washington Times: New Brookings study finds strong climate action would NOT hurt the economy 1
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The right wing likes to take economic analyses that don't model the House clean energy and climate bill and then misrepresent the results to attack the bill. The latest hit job is by The Washington Times, which abuses a new study by Brookings in a piece whose headline is exactly backwards.
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