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Strange bedfellows in climate politics
A Nation columnist goes contrarian; GM goes the other way |
Charles Komanoff |
22 May 2007 |
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| Did lefty pundit Alexander Cockburn and corporate behemoth General Motors secretly agree to swap climate positions? It looks that way. GM, swallowing hard, recently joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, the elite enviro-business coalition pushing cap-and-trade -- a so-called "market-based system" for controlling carbon dioxide emissions. Meanwhile, the famously acidic Cockburn lacerated global warming orthodoxy in his column in the Nation ma ... |
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| Topics: Big Auto, business, carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, greening biz operations, US CAP (all these topics) |
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