White House Adviser Rejects Idea of Limited Climate Package
- Browner Says Obama Administration Is Seeking Measures to Include Entire EconomyWASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's top climate adviser on Friday called for "comprehensive energy reform" and threw cold water on the idea of a more modest climate package that would apply mandatory reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions only to electric utilities. The Senate has sidelined until at least next spring a bill to cap U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions and create a system for companies to acquire and trade pollution permits -- a system called "cap and trade" by proponents and "cap and tax" by opponents. Republicans and some conservative Democrats are...
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