Cap And Trade Should Go The Way Of The DoDo Before We Do

Posted: December 4th, 2009 | Author: Gabriella | Filed under: In the News | Tags: | No Comments »

Daphne Wysham, Fellow and Board Member at the Institute for Policy Studies, and contributor to Mandate for Change, discusses Cap and Trade with The Huffington Post.

President Barack Obama’s announcement that the U.S. will offer an unprecedented pledge to reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020 at the Copenhagen climate talks in December may seem impressive at first blush. But look closely, and you’ll see the “cuts” he has offered are, at least in the short-term, essentially meaningless.

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