Sentences with phrase «offered emissions permits»

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The bill would speed up the processing of permits to build new nuclear power plants and offer up to $ 10 billion in loans for new coal - to - liquid plants, as long as they captured their carbon emissions.

Cap and trade may seem like the big offer on the emission reductions table at the moment — one mention of alternatives like a straight carbon tax send many people (the average American in particular) into apoplectic fits — but Annie «The Story of Stuff» Leonard wants you to take a closer look.There are so many troubling details in how cap and trade is currently proposed — free permit giveaways to polluters, massive potential for bogus offsetting projects, the ever - present potential of distracting us from making real changes — that we really need to consider other options.