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1. Start a company. 2. Register your company as a "member firm" on the carbon exchange. 3. Do nothing. 4. Produce nothing. 5. Above all, use NO Energy! 6. Over the course of time, you will accumulate carbon "credits" because your company is not using energy or polluting the environment. 7. You can then turn and sell your carbon credits to other companies that are polluting the environment, e.g. factories, airlines, automakers. 8. Contact those "polluting" companies and shame them into buying your carbon credits at a premium, or a "discount" depending on how you choose to market them. 9....

WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis is paying the price for independent thinking. Inglis, a Travelers Rest Republican, might have been the only Republican lawmaker in the country booed lustily by his own constituents at town hall meetings last month.Inglis was shouted down when he asked listeners why they're afraid of President Barack Obama - and then suggested they stop watching conservative TV commentator Glenn Beck."He's trading on fear," Inglis advised one group, setting off loud catcalls. Despite a broadly conservative voting record, Inglis has angered many GOP activists with his contrarian stands on a handful of high-profile issues. In...

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia's Senate has rejected legislation to set up an emissions trading system in the country to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. The Senate voted Tuesday to defeat a bill that is the centerpiece of the government's plans to slash Australia's emissions by up to 25 percent below 2000 levels by 2020 as part of global efforts to fight global warming. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd wanted the legislation passed before he attends next week's U.N. summit on climate change in Copenhagen so he could portray Australia as a leader on the issue. The government's next step is unclear. Rudd...