Obama's Climate Challenge: Winning the Carbon Game

When it comes to perhaps the largest and most complex policy challenge facing the Obama administration—finally slowing the pace of global warming before dangerous changes become unstoppable—the new president stares down a Dickensian paradox. Full Story »

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by Derek Hawkins - Mar. 23, 2009

A nearly exhaustive article on the Obama administration's policies addressing climate change and the political and economic obstacles in leading a global initiative toward cutting emissions.

Yet it’s also the worst of times to address global warming. The recession makes the enactment of strong climate protection policies—which are bound to raise the price ... More »

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by Norman Rogers - Mar. 23, 2009

This story is fantasy. Cap and trade and carbon control will never get beyond the this is a nice new tax stage. True carbon limitation would send gas to $15 gallon and raise everyones electric and heat to the skies.

The political reality is that carbon control is a political impossibility, here, in China, in India and even in Europe. The main appeal is the tax ... More »

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