My colleague Jesse Jenkins and I warned about this last Friday, when we argued that cap and trade advocates would use recent news that Deutsche Bank is moving clean energy investment overseas as evidence that cap and trade would have kept investment in the United States.
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So we put the technology trade back on and we put the small-cap growth trade back on.
The defenders of the cap-and-trade proposal, however, have advanced the proposition that strictly speaking, cap-and-trade is not just a tax, as its mechanism contains features not included in a conventional taxation system.
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However, in a cap and trade or permit system the limit on emissions is the number of permits, the cap.
Another approach to putting a price on carbon dioxide emissions is a cap and trade program.
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President Obama also sees the disaster as another reason to pass cap and trade legislation.
Your only argument for dismissing cap and trade is its supposedly greater vulnerability to capture.
Or we could go the cap and trade route, which is what these permits are all about.
Change the price of carbon emissions through a tax or a cap and trade system: then stop.
The massive stealth tax on energy called "cap and trade" is not a slam dunk to pass.
Whether or not cap and trade becomes law, green and sustainability initiatives are underway in virtually every company.
Cap and trade was originally proposed by conservatives and Republicans as a market-based solution to solving environmental problems.
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The uncertainty surrounding Dodd-Frank, Obamacare, and a piecemeal implementation of Cap and Trade via regulatory decree cascade into discord.
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After the House passed cap and trade, he did little to make passage in the Senate a priority.
The EPA is effectively imposing cap and trade by administrative regulation under the Clean Air Act, without Congressional approval.
Indeed, the effort to pass cap and trade legislation may be the best financed political cause in American history.
That may leave big energy firms regretting their opposition to cap and trade.
Under a cap and trade system, incentives toward efficiency would be even stronger.
Forced unionization, cap and trade, and socialized health care are the big worries.
Those assumptions would be wrong, as there is still plenty of disagreement on carbon pricing versus cap and trade.
And did they say, all right, we're going to come to the table on cap and trade, for instance?
Their product will be more competitive if we can pass cap and trade.
The great virtue of cap and trade is that the system can be taken directly to the targeted emission reductions.
Passing cap and trade will help these renewable energy companies grow, create jobs and shareholder value, and save our planet.
In fact, the Obama Administration desperately tried and failed to increase oil and gas prices via cap and trade last year.
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The EU Emissions Trading Scheme ( ETS) has been seen as the world's best attempt to cut carbon by means of cap and trade.
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The Chamber's ill-timed and reckless interview also threatens to undermine the growing support for a thoughtful legislative alternative to cap and trade.
In a moment, we'll tell you about the fight over the trillions of dollars that this cap and trade system will cost.
Looming above all: the push to price and manage carbon dioxide emissions via a carbon tax or a cap and trade regime.
The demise of cap and trade in Congress, however, does not call a complete halt to the administration's efforts to cut emissions.
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