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Cap and trade schemes can work without impacting poor families

Joanne McCulloch

18 October 2007 • 2 min read

New US report argues cap and trade schemes need not impose crippling energy bills as Bush reiterates opposition to Kyoto's carbon limits

Charging American companies that pollute through a cap and trade system is the best way to cut the country's emissions without impacting the poor, an independent think-tank has claimed. In a new report...

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