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Northeast Climate Compact Keeps Proving Carbon Cap and Trade Works Really Well

December 13, 2013 By thegreenmiles

The U.S. Senate Republican minority used the filibuster to block the majority from passing a carbon cap and trade program in 2010, because FREEDOM, or something. So a group of Northeast states went ahead with it anyway and it continues to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cap-and-trade, carbon-emissions, climate-change, global-warming, rggi

Senator Brown’s Chance to Kill any Effort to Curb Global Warming

March 11, 2011 By historian

Up to now, it's been assumed that a Presidential veto of such action would not easily be overturned, but that may not be the case.  Senator Bingaman of New Mexico has expressed doubts about the prospects for upholding a veto: ""I think … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cap-and-trade, climate-change, epa, global-warming, scott-brown, senator-brown

Climate Crisis Catastrophe

July 25, 2010 By historian

This disaster has many authors. (1) Republicans: There's the fact that not a single Republican Senator would back a bill. Senator Graham backed away from the bill he originally helped to produce with Senators Kerry and Lieberman. Senator … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 350.org, cap-and-trade, clear, climate-change, democrats, kerry, national, obama, republicans

Lessons from the “Enlightened Eight”: Republicans Can Vote Pro-Environment and Not Get “Tea Partied

July 14, 2010 By heather-taylormiesle-nrdc-action-fund

On June 26, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 219-212 in favor of HR 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES). Only eight Republicans - we'll call them the "Enlightened Eight" - voted "aye." These … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cap-and-trade, clean-energy, climate-bill, climate-change, congress, nrdc-action-fund, politics-news, primaries, tea-party

Remember, Cap-and-Trade Was Originally a Free-Market, Conservative Idea

July 1, 2010 By lowell-feld-nrdc-action-fund

In short, good things happened when we harnessed the tremendous power of the market to solve environmental problems. Today, the biggest and most pressing of those problems - identified, once again, by a massive amount of scientific research … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cap-and-trade, clean-energy, climate-change, nrdc-action-fund

Waxman-Markey cap n’ trade: Does undermining your allies help?

May 18, 2009 By Charley on the MTA

I have to admit I'm pretty confused by the strategy used in this post and the accompanying video from enviros theclean.org:Let's stipulate that yes, of course it's stupid to subsidize "carbon capture and sequestration" for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cap-and-trade, ed-markey, environment, global-warming, henry-waxman, markey

The Great Transformation

December 11, 2008 By skifree_99

We are on the cusp of a dramatic transformation of our economy caused by energy security concerns, past and future oil shocks, and imminent and dramatic climatic disruptions caused by greenhouse gases. Take a look at the 2025 Global Trends … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cap-and-trade, greenhouse-gases, redd

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