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Senate’s Climate Bill Puts Green Collar on Carbon

October 5, 2009

Posted by Andy Stevenson in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

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ACES, carbonmarkets, carbontrading, energyandclimate2009, energyspeculation, energytrading, greenpricecollar, kerryboxer, pricecollar

Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer have introduced a "green" price collar on carbon under their draft climate bill that should be applauded by emitters and environmentalists alike. A green price collar that will; 1) maintain the integrity of the...continued→

Energy Reforms Critical for Assuring Carbon Markets

August 12, 2009

Posted by Andy Stevenson in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

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carbonregulation, carbontrading, CFTC, energyandclimate2009, energytrading, feinsteinsnowe, financialregulation, markettransformation, positionlimits, waxmanmarkey

A new report to be released later this month by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is expected to reveal that contrary to their previous findings, speculators were in fact to blame for generating a "significant" amount of the...continued→