We Can Still Price Carbon With a Republican House

Submitted by Anna on Wed, 11/10/2010 - 10:19

Steve Valk
November 10, 2010

Help build the movement for sensible climate policy—Attend ‘Pricing Carbon: The Wesleyan Conference

Published by The Huffington Post.

Now that Republicans have taken control of the U.S. House, environmentalists are wringing their hands, seeing no possibility that Congress will enact effective climate and energy legislation in the near or distant future.

In his post-election news conference last week, President Obama all but declared cap-and-trade dead: “There are a lot of Republicans that ran against the energy bill that passed in the House last year. And so it’s doubtful that you could get the votes to pass that through the House this year or next year or the year after.”

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