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What You Need to Know About the Western Climate Initiative

Posted on September 23, 2008

by Eric de PlaceThe Western Climate Initiative -- North America's biggest cap-and-trade system -- just released it's final proposal: here.This is historic stuff. The proposal leaves room for improvement -- I'll get to that in a minute -- but let's take note of where we are. This will be the first major climate policy to tackle all the principle sources of climate pollution. And it's by far the biggest cap-and-trade system proposed in North America. It's a giant step forward.With 85 million people spread out across seven states and four provinces, WCI all by itself represents nearly three-q...

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