Cap-and-trade and other trade-offs

By David A. Fahrenthold / The Bulletin
May 27, 2009

WASHINGTON — It sounds like alchemy, an act of bureaucratic magic. Under the climate change bill just approved by a House committee, the U.S. government would literally make a commodity — as tradable as a Pontiac or a pork belly — out of thin air.

The bill would....

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