Obama's draft budget projects cap-and-trade revenue: Scientific American

Obama's proposed cap-and-trade revenues immediately drew the ire of House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio).

"'Cap-and-trade' is code for increasing taxes, killing American jobs, and raising energy costs for consumers," Boehner said in a statement. "Middle-class families are struggling during this recession, and the last thing they need is even higher costs of living and weaker job security, which is exactly what 'cap-and-trade' would deliver."

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UPDATE: Bill McKibben, who helped organize the impending civil disobedience at the CPP emails me “just to say, this civil disobedience stuff kind of works. How many coal plants are there?”

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