1. Cap and Trade - Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
... to emissions. The opportunity for Cap and Trade came along with the 1998 presidential election of George H.W Bush. The president of EDF called Bush's White House counsel, Boyden Gray, suggesting that the best way for Bush to become the "environmental president" was to fix the acid rain problem, and to do ... happen, before Reagan's administration expired. This was also around the time that global warming was starting to become a huge problem, but EDF and the Bush White House both felt that emissions trading, or Cap and Trade would be the best way to address this challenge. Many staffers f...
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