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Mitigating Climate Change – Regulation or Taxation?

Benji Jerew — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:51:42 +0000

As Americans are becoming more informed on the causes of climate change, they are also getting a better idea on what needs to be done about it and what part they have to play. They are also forming some pretty strong opinions on what the government ought to be doing in order to encourage, or […]

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“Cap-and-trade” Program Cuts Down California’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Mila Luleva — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:22:55 +0000

This coming Wednesday, California is going to go one step further in their fight against climate change. The state is hosting the first ever sale of carbon emissions permits, which hopefully will become a common practice in many other U.S states. The program is called “cap-and-trade”. The state sets limits (or cap) on quantities of […]

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Congress Drops Carbon Legislation, CO2 Still Drops

Benji Jerew — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:58:47 +0000

Even though the carbon taxes and cap-and-trade legislation pushed by the Obama administration in 2010 failed to pass in Congress, it seems that greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions, carbon-dioxide [CO2] mainly, still dropped on a nationwide scale. Market changes and individual state regulations seem to have made more of an impact than the failed legislation did. […]

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