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How US energy policy fails to address climate change
2013-04-06 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Current U.S. energy policy is, in fact, a hodgepodge of disconnected policies designed for specific constituencies with no coherent goal. The country has subsidies for fossil fuels, subsidies for nuclear power, subsidies for wind and solar, and subsidies for insulating and retrofitting buildings. We also have energy standards for some appliances and miles per gallon standards for automobiles. What never gets asked and answered definitively in the policy debate is this: What should our ultimate...
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