Western Climate Initiative: Stakeholders discuss cap-and-trade plan

You can buy and sell world currencies on a trading floor. And you can pick up produce at a neighborhood marketplace. But how do you construct a market for climate change pollution? (Snip) The latest public meeting of the Western Climate Initiative brought government together with the companies, students, labor unions, industry groups and environmental organizations eager to have a hand in shaping a cap-and-trade market for the West.

[read the paragraph again, re: who was 'brought together'. Excepting the student (being young they're supposed to be foolish), we're talking special interests front-to-back. The article speaks of capital-financiers and marketing pros and assuring all have 'a seat at the table'. Subject matter scientists are never mentioned. This is a boondoggle - what's being served 'at the table' is the American taxpayer]

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