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Opinion: Corporations at the Cap-and-Trade Trough

(April 26) -- When Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., threatened this weekend to pull back his support of a global warming bill he co-authored -- along with Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. -- it looked as though the once-dead cap-and-trade bill could be dead again. That might be just as well. Unlike the...

Opinion: Silver Lining in Global Warming Scandals?

(Feb. 18) -- It's been a bad few months for advocates of action to address climate change. Last week's discovery of typos and poor sourcing in the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report came just a few months after a reserve of stolen e-mails from East Anglia scientists showed that a few prominent...

Cap-and-Trade Model Loses Billions to Fraud

(Dec. 10) -- As negotiators grapple in Copenhagen over a global scheme to curtail carbon emissions, Europe's own iteration was revealed as an easy mark for organized crime. The development could lend fresh ammunition to congressional critics of the Obama administration's plans to limit carbon emissions through a...

Opinion: Five Myths About Fighting Global Warming

(Dec. 7) -- In the run-up to this week's U.N. global warming conference in Copenhagen, two events occurred that seemed to undermine the momentum toward a meaningful effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. Last month, the Senate leadership announced that Congress wouldn't finish work on national emissions...

CapAndTrade News From the Web

05/15/12 California and Quebec Will Link Cap-and-Trade Programs Source: Triple Pundit It's good news for proponents of cap-and-trade programs.
04/28/11 Economic kneecapping Source: The London Free Press - London ON - Canada If NDP Leader Jack Layton wins a minority government May 2, supported by the Liberals and Bloc Quebecois, he plans to make Canadians pay a new charge estimated at $21.5 billion over the next four years for the right to emit man-made carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
03/30/11 Mann: Changing Tax Policy to Fit Cap-and-Trade Source: TaxProf Recognizing that a federal cap-and-trade program will affect the tax system both directly and indirectly, this paper will consider how the direct and indirect tax issues should be resolved.
12/19/10 California To Implement A Cap-And-Trade System Source: Go Green Carbon trading is a popular concept and scheme in Europe, however, the same cannot be said regarding the United States.