Wheres the Love for Cap-and-Trade?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’}President Obama came into office with “cap-and-trade” as his preferred policy tool for curbing greenhouse gas emissions. He praised it by name in his first budget and applauded the House of Representatives last year when it passed a bill known as ACES, or The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. Now, it is up to the U.S. Senate to vote before the bill can make its way to President Obama to be signed into law. ACES is a comprehensive energy bill that seeks to install an economy-wide, greenhouse gas cap-and-trade system to help address climate change and create a clean energy economy. Now, as the U.S. Senate is working on a companion energy and climate measure, known as the Kerry/Gra