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INTERVIEW: MAKING GREENHOUSE GASES A COMMODITY
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We can expect Congress will take up a carbon cap-and-trade bill soon. That would make greenhouse gases a commodity. The United States Climate Action Partnership wants to know the rules of the carbon trading game sooner rather than later. US CAP is made up of businesses such as GE, automakers, some power companies and environmental groups. Other business leaders say a carbon cap-and-trade program will only increase the cost of everything. Dan Lashoff is with the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the US CAP members. The Environment Report's Lester Graham asked him why the companies in US CAP would want Congress to come up with a cap-and-trade program now?
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Producer: Lester Graham
Release Date: January 19, 2009
Running Time: 3:24