{"id":267181,"date":"2010-02-02T16:10:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"tag:business.theatlantic.com,2010:\/\/3.35217"},"modified":"2010-02-02T16:12:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:12:03","slug":"white-house-dont-count-on-cap-and-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/267181","title":{"rendered":"White House: Don’t Count on Cap-and-Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is the White House tacitly admitting that they’ve given up on cap-and trade? I have no way to know, but Ezra Klein<\/a> spots something that should make carbon price advocates nervous:<\/p>\n

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Last year’s budget included space for both a health-care reform bill
\nand a cap-and-trade bill. The revenues for cap-and-trade, in fact, paid
\nfor a substantial middle-class tax cut. But this year, the budget
\nassumes that health-care reform passes<\/a> and deletes<\/a> cap-and-trade — and the tax cut it would fund in the future — entirely.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Even if the White House is shelving an aggressive cap-and-trade plan, it doesn’t mean the administration is giving up on green energy
\npolicy entirely. Administration officials have mentioned rretrofitting
\nhouses for energy efficiency as part of a job stimulus plan for months.
\nMoreover the stimulus was packed with green incentives<\/a>,
\nincluding more than $10 billion to “weatherize” federal, state and
\nlocal government buildings, $11 billion for “smart grid” investments,
\nand a green jobs retraining program.
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\n<\/strong>What would take C&T’s place in the docket? The jobs bill
\nwill be the administration’s first priority, in front of (or running
\nalongside) attempts to salvage health care. Financial reform will
\nlikely follow. Immigration reform could come after, but although Obama
\nmentioned this in his State of the Union address, he’s been light on
\nspecifics.


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Is the White House tacitly admitting that they’ve given up on cap-and trade? I have no way to know, but Ezra Klein spots something that should make carbon price advocates nervous: Last year’s budget included space for both a health-care reform bill and a cap-and-trade bill. The revenues for cap-and-trade, in fact, paid for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}