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 Stories About: US CAP
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Response from Environmental Defense: Top-down or bottom-up, the goal is cutting carbon
Getting something done is the priority |
David Roberts |
22 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The following is a guest essay from Tony Kreindler of Environmental Defense, in response to Charles Komanoff's post from earlier today, "Strange bedfellows in climate politics." ----- Charles Komanoff's post is entertaining, but a lot of what he says is wrong. His main proposition is that unlike "devilishly complex" cap-and-trade, a carbon tax is straightforward approach that will resist gaming by special interests. That raises a few questio ... |
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| Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, Congress, Environmental Defense Fund, politics, US CAP (all these topics) |
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Strange bedfellows in climate politics
A Nation columnist goes contrarian; GM goes the other way |
Charles Komanoff |
22 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| 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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