Sunday, August 8, 2010

Deep freeze ahead for carbon cap bills - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.com

Deep freeze ahead for carbon cap bills - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.com:
"Environment America, the Sierra Club and the Union of Concerned Scientists, with more than 2.5 million members combined, now consider it their top job to defend the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to write climate rules against attacks in the courts and on Capitol Hill.

“The era of the big bill I think is over,” said an environmentalist whose group has not yet come out publicly on the issue.

The groups�also are hoping to defend and expand on state and regional climate laws and compacts, including a carbon market for power plants operating in the Northeast and emerging systems in the West. And they will work at the state public utility commission level to make carbon dioxide emissions a crux in reviewing permits for new and existing coal-fired power plants."

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