| From Chron.com: Business and environmental leaders today unveiled a wide-ranging energy plan and embraced a mandatory timeline for slowing and eventually reversing the growth of greenhouse gas emissions.
The core of the initiative, developed by a 2-year-old consortium known as the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, is a cap-and-trade system under which oil refineries, power plants and other industrial operations could stay within federal limits for greenhouse gas emissions by buying and selling permits to release pollutants blamed for climate change.... Full Article: Source
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