To calm the fears of the fossil-fuel industry, Waxman reduced the amount of carbon allowances that would be auctioned off to companies, and would give more of them away for free.

要安抚受到惊吓的矿物燃料行业，维克斯曼削减了本应拍卖给这些公司的碳排放限额，而是免费颁发其中的大部分限额。

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The only problem: somehow beating back the fossil fuel industry to a point of nonexistence.

唯一的问题是：不知该怎么让矿物燃料企业彻底消亡。

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There is big increase in demand for fossil fuel in the transportation industry.

运输业对化石燃料的需求大大增加了。

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This is ironic, because however high the death toll at Fukushima climbs, it is unlikely to match the casualties in the fossil-fuel industry.

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Nisbet sliced-and-diced information from several large campaign-finance databases like OpenSecrets.org and Maplight.org to estimate the amount of money environmental groups and the fossil-fuel industry spent on climate and energy campaigns.

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That estimate does not include all manner of subsidies doled out to the fossil-fuel industry, ranging from cheap access to oil on government land to the ongoing American military presence in the Middle East.

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