Politics makes emissions trading a peculiar market

The trading in units of permission to emit carbon dioxide is supposed to be a market-based response to global warming. It’s really politics.
Feb. 6, 2012

The trading in units of permission to emit carbon dioxide is supposed to be a market-based response to global warming. It’s really politics.

About the Author

Bob Tippee

Bob Tippee

Editor

Bob Tippee has been chief editor of Oil & Gas Journal since January 1999 and a member of the Journal staff since October 1977. Before joining the magazine, he worked as a reporter at the Tulsa World and served for four years as an officer in the US Air Force. A native of St. Louis, he holds a degree in journalism from the University of Tulsa.

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