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CARBON TAX * USA - EPA Pick Is ‘Open’ to
Jackson Says She Prefers Cap and Trade
Washington,DC,USA -Transport Topics, by Eric Miller -Jan. 19, 2009: -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said she was “open to discussion” of a carbon tax to limit greenhouse gas emissions and would immediately begin a review of the Bush administration’s denial of California’s request to regulate those emissions from automobiles... However, Jackson said, “a carbon tax alone in isolation does not set an eventual goal for actual reduction of global warming,” and she told a Senate panel that President Barack Obama favored a cap-and-trade system... Steven Chu, Obama’s energy secretary, also said he supported Obama’s preference for a cap-and-trade program over a carbon tax...
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