Mitt Romney on cap and trade-the facts

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[RC one]

“If you look at cap-and-trade, Gov. Romney was very proud to say that he was the first state in the country as governor to sign a cap on CO-2 emissions, the first state in the country to put a cap believing in global warming — and criticized Republicans for not believing in it.”

Rick Santorum, during NBC News debate in Tampa, Jan. 23, 2012

The Facts

A Wall Street Journal article from October 2011 noted that Romney strongly supported cap-and-trade while serving as governor of Massachusetts. It reports that he stood outside an old coal-fired plant in 2003, promising activists, “I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant, that plant kills people.”

Romney later bragged about signing the only cap-and-trade bill among the states in 2005, saying Massachusetts was “the first and only state to set CO2 emissions limits on power plants.”

[RC one]

what was Mitt Romney saying about Newt Gingrich and Nasty Pelosi sitting on a couch talking about global warming?

[Utmost Certainty]

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