From Newsmax:
Fearful of a backlash against the costly healthcare overhaul and bracing for huge losses in the 2010 elections, Democratic leaders are urging the Obama White House to abandon efforts to pass a cap-and-trade bill next year.
“I am communicating that in every way I know how,” Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., told Politico. She’s one of at least half a dozen Democrats who've told the White House or their own leaders that “it's time to jettison the centerpiece of their party's plan to curb global warming,” Politico reported.
But the idea of an economy-wide market for greenhouse gas emissions is...
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More on cap-and-trade:
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Cap and trade is an expensive sham with little benefit
Leaked gov't memo: "Cap and trade" will end in disaster
