Would the Greens greet this news with relief and rejoicing, because Mother Earth is safer and global warming won't murder us as speedily in our sleep?
You'd think so--but no. How do I know? Because Northeast power plants came in under cap in the past couple of years, and environmentalist interest groups were bummed about it.
"If the cap is above what power plants are emitting, we won't see any change in their behavior," said Derek K. Murrow, director of policy analysis for Environment Northeast, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization. "They just continue business as usual."
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"If we are under the cap, what is the problem?" said Robert Rio, senior vice president of Associated Industries. "The goal of the program is to reduce greenhouse gases."
Or is it? Cue scary music.
Linked from James Taranto.
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