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Inhofe: After 2010, Senate Can Reverse EPA Decision

By | 12.08.09 | 12:44 pm

At the Heritage Foundation today, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) claimed that there were only 25 “aye” votes in the Senate for the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill. The “Climategate” scandal, over e-mails obtained from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit that skeptics claim to show scientists forging global warming More…

Carbon Cap-And-Trade System Kicks Off

By | 09.26.08 | 11:30 am

The first carbon cap-and-trade program has launched in the U.S. this week.

Ten northeastern states are capping their industrial CO2 emissions at 188 million tons and holding auctions for power plants to trade pollution allowances.