Coyote Blog: A Civics Lesson in One Sentence

But we had an opportunity that day. Because the man who claims to be the author of AB32 [a sort of state CO2 cap and trade system] is none other than Joe Nation, who was right there in the room. So we asked him why he took this approach. Here is what he said, really a civics lesson in one sentence:

I tried pass a carbon tax first, but there was absolutely no support for it among legislators [the same ones who overwhelmingly supported AB32]