John Warner and the bill's co-author, Joe Lieberman, an estranged Democrat, have included something for almost everyone [in America's Climate Security Act (ACSA), involving a cap-and-trade scheme in which the government sets an overall limit on emissions and then sells or gives away an equivalent number of tradeable permits to pollute]. To please the greens they have proposed severe cuts in America's emissions, of about 60% by 2050. To please the business lobby, they have proposed measures to reduce the costs of compliance. To please everybody, they have included the magic word “security” in the bill's title: keeping America safe from dangerous weather.
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The Economist, Nov 15th 2007