Whatever these 500 polluters manufacture will rise in cost as they pass this theft on to the consumer.
This is idiotic, why not force them to take this theft money and put it into cleaning up their plant, but no, The government will get the money ,the consumer will get the shaft, and the pollution will still be there.
She's not trying to attack pollution, but carbon dioxide. CO2 is not a pollutant. It is a byproduct of most manufacturing processes, and of all biological processes. Without CO2, there is no life. Decreasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere literally decreases the amount of living things the earth can support.