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"How the GOP and a Slumping Economy Killed a 'Republican Instrument'" [1]

The market-based cap-and-trade approach to climate legislation was originally a product of a business coalition and Republican principles. Then some of the people who invented it began vilifying it.

Peter Behr reports for ClimateWire August 11, 2010. [2]

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Public [5]
Source: ClimateWire [2], 08/13/2010
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