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  • Some officials worry about ‘cap-and-trade’ bill (Carbon Credits)

    03/31/2008 3:19:49 PM PDT · by Shermy · 18 replies · 559+ views
    Dickinson Press ^ | March 27, 2008 | Janelle Cole
    BISMARCK — The North Dakota Public Service Commission got a walk-through Wednesday of the congressional bill that would create a “cap and trade” system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. Some don’t like what they’ve learned. It’s the Lieberman-Warner bill, which is expected to be debated in the Senate in June. It would set up a system in which coal-fired plants, farms, industrial processors, manufacturers, utility companies and others will be issued a set number of allowances which will then be decreased over the next few decades to match the decrease in their emissions, until 2031, when their...