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The 192 countries flocking to Copenhagen next month won't reach consensus on climate change. That won't stop them from acting alone.
Climate-change legislation might get bogged down in the Senate.
When David Roberts was growing up near the oilfields of West Texas in the early 1960s, it never got dark. Back then, oilfields were lit 24/7 by the gas flares used to burn off natural gas, a byproduct of oil drilling. The flares released massive amounts of CO2, and over time, oil companies halted
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drivers will pay more to drive, businesses will pay more to burn fuel. Whether it's through a carbon tax or a cap - and - trade system , economists, politicians, and energy-industry executives agree that Americans will soon pay a price to engage
the broadest piece of climate legislation ever considered by congress. The measure, in short, would set up a cap and trade system to regulate carbon, aiming to cut emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020 and 80 percent by the end of
seeing progress in Congress around energy legislation that would set up for the first time in the United States a cap and trade system . That process is moving forward in ways that I think if you had asked political experts two or three months ago
Is he wedded to a "public option" for those who don't like their private insurers? Will he fight for a cap - and - trade system ? We might not know all the answers in the second hundred days, but we'll be getting warmer, in more ways
guns and religion) is still king. His plan to control carbon-dioxide emissions and raise new revenue with a cap - and - trade system is wildly unpopular in some parts of his own party. Two key examples: Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia and
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