It is time to take our foot off the gas and develop a cleaner, safer energy system we can all afford.

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The reasons for developing a cleaner, safer, more secure energy system are well known.

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The WEO report called on all governments to act quickly to "steer the world towards a cleaner, cleverer and more competitive energy system".

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CCIT's mission is to accelerate the implementation of research results and the deployment of technical solutions to enable a safer, cleaner, and more efficient surface transportation system.

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It has in it the cap-and-trade system that makes it economic, it has a practically modest renewable energy portfolio system, it has some help for nuclear and cleaner coal.

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Are such results proof that the system is working, that top-level sport is becoming cleaner?

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But with a cap-and-trade system looming, they'll invest in ways to burn it cleaner and to sequester the carbon emissions from power plants.

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It promoted the use of the European Emissions Trading System, where revenues from carbon trading are automatically reinvested into more efficient and cleaner technologies.

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It would be cleaner to figure out a way to deliver the credit through the income tax system if this becomes a permanent feature of our tax system, rather than a one year tax cut.

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