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Opinion: Why Aren't Environmentalists Cheering Higher Gas Prices?

As gasoline prices continue to rise faster than station owners can update their signs, so too have calls to do something about the problem. Some Democrats are calling on President Barack Obama to uncork the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help ameliorate the pain at the pump. Republicans are renewing calls for more domestic...

Opinion: Why We Need to 'Cool It' on Global Warming

(Nov. 12) -- For 20 years now, we've been debating what (if anything) we should do about global warming, with very little to show for it. Despite grandiose pledges such as the 2008 promise by the Group of Eight industrialized nations to work to cut global carbon emissions in half by 2050, no meaningful international...

Opinion: Nancy Pelosi -- Clueless in San Francisco

(Nov. 12) -- You remember the movie "Sleepless in Seattle" with Meg Ryan in the female lead? Well, now there's a new one out in the same genre. This one is called "Clueless in San Francisco," currently playing in Washington, D.C., and starring Nancy Pelosi. How clueless is Pelosi? Well, look at it this way: In the midterm...

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...

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Putting Cap and Trade Back Into Play

The nation's first experiment with a cap and trade system for carbon emissions has come to an end -- as of the first of the year, the Chicago Climate Exchange no longer deals in carbon credits.

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Cap and Trade Is So 2009: Time for an Alternative?

As recently as May 2009, cap and trade was the preferred policy solution for the Kyoto Protocol, federal legislation in Congress, regions, and states.

Background on cap and trade

Emissions trading or cap-and-trade is a market-based approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants.

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