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Climate leadership will come not from this President but from the next. So how will voters be able to tell which candidate is going to take real action? If there's a canary in this coal mine, it's the policy known as cap and trade, an idea Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp calls a "silver bullet." Where do the candidates really stand on cap and trade--and how does it work, anyway...
...think about cap and trade is as a carbon diet. When utilities or oil refiners are put on the regimen, their annual carbon emissions are measured, and they receive a stack of pollution allowances giving them the right to emit that much carbon in a year. Then the emissions are reduced, year by year. Like all diets, this one's hard to stick to. It's also expensive, since emitters have to invest in technologies to reduce their pollution. But there are incentives. Constraints on carbon boost prices, which means that alternative sources of power become competitive. What's more...
That's the trade in cap and trade, and it harnesses the power of the marketplace to fight warming, a concept that helped Republicans like McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, fall in love with the idea. What's more, it works. Cap and trade was used in the 1990s to limit sulfur dioxide emissions and help tame acid rain. The most promising piece of green legislation now on Capitol Hill, co-sponsored by independent Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Republican Senator John Warner of Virginia, is a cap-and-trade proposal. The bill is popular, but that doesn...
...show up during the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) yearly basketball tournament are not nearly as infamous, a substantial portion of its advertising is for beer. According to the organization’s own bylaws, it cannot advertise for hard liquor, but it only puts a cap on the amount of beer advertising that can be shown during a game—a cap that was exceeded in at least one of this past year’s games. In response to this, University President Drew G. Faust, along with over 100 other university presidents and athletic...
...them in. Hopefully next time we have that lead, we’ll hold it.” “I can’t say that they really threw any bad pitches,” Haviland added. “Sometimes you just have to tip your cap to the hitter.”The Crimson jumped out to an early lead with single runs in the first and second innings—this time off Yale starter Alex Christ. As Unger cruised through his outing—he retired the side in order in four...