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What Should Happen to the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill?

Posted on June 26, 2009

The Waxman-Markey climate bill (HR 2454), passed in the U.S. House of Representatives today, is hailed by many as the most important piece of climate change legislation ever. Yet it's still receiving a surprising amount of opposition from environmentalists, mostly for it's plentiful polluter permits, weak renewable electricity goals, and low carbon emission reduction targets . Greenpeace outright rejects the bill, claiming that it sets emission reduction targets far lower than science demands, then undermines even those targets with massive offsets and warning that We simply no longer have ...

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carbon , friends of the earth , greenpeace , legislation , renewable
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