Australia rejects Cap-And-Trade
- Thursday, August 13 2009 @ 01:00 PM CST
- Contributed by: filbert
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No, we're not all-health-care-all-of-the-time here. Via Wattsupwiththat:
Isn't it time for some small sense of sanity to start seeping in here in America, too?Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) — Australia’s Senate rejected the government’s climate-change legislation, forcing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to amend the bill or call an early election.
Senators voted 42 to 30 against the law, which included plans for a carbon trading system similar to one used in Europe. Australia, the world’s biggest coal exporter, was proposing to reduce greenhouse gases by between 5 percent and 15 percent of 2000 levels in the next decade.
That doubles as my daily dose of alliteration for the day. Dang!