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Why Climate Change Legislation Failed -- And What to Do About It
2013-01-17 18:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Theda Skocpol has written an immense study of why the 2010 climate bill failed. I haven't read it yet, but Brad Plumer talked to her yesterday and got the nutshell version: climate hawks had a really bad legislative strategy: BP: So around 2007, Republicans were becoming more skeptical of climate policy. Yet the main climate strategy in D.C. was to craft a complex cap-and-trade bill amenable to businesses like BP and DuPont in the hopes that those companies would bring in Republican votes. TS:...
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