The Initiative was modeled on the 1990 Clean Air Act's acidrain program, which put SO2 under a cap and trade plan (see Dispelling the myths of the acidrainstory).
«The first thing I should say is that I've lost some of my respect for those kind of consensus arguments since covering the acidrainstory in particular, since covering a lot of the environmental scares, swine flu, everything,» Ridley said.