
With Cap-and-Trade DOA in the Senate, What Are the Alternatives?
February 3rd, 2010 admin

All eyes were on the Obama administration’s 2011 budget proposal on Monday, and there was no shortage of speculation on what it meant for energy and environmental policy. There’s some good stuff in there and some not so good stuff. But when it comes to the projected revenue from cap-and-trade legislation all this budget proposal contains is a “placeholder.” In the 2010 budget, the administration had projected revenue from …
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