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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today pressed for passage of climate legislation by the US before the world’s climate talks in December at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen.
“We think it is important for the president to be empowered to be able to say to the rest of the [...]

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Carbonfund.org President Eric Carlson today appeared with author and professor Robert H. Frank at a National Press Club Newsmaker Event. The topic, selected by a committee of the Press Club, was an economic assessment of carbon offsets, particularly in context of the cap-and-trade climate legislation in Congress. Last Friday, the House of Representatives passed the [...]

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Despite some opposition against the Waxman-Markey bill, a poll in late April by NBC/Wall Street Journal showed that 53% of 1,005 participants supported federal legislation that limited greenhouse gas emission even at the cost of bearing higher taxes.
Now an analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) reveals that combining a CO2 cap-and-trade program with [...]

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