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Article: Environmental Defense Fund and COMPETE Urge Congress to Support Market-Based Policies for Climate Change and Electricity
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- U.S. Newswire
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- May 6, 2009
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To: POLITICAL EDITORS
Contact: Tony Kreindler of EDF, +1-202-572-3378,
akreindler@edf.org; or Khristyn Brimmeier, +1-202-292-6964,
kbrimmeier@gpgdc.com, for COMPETE
Joint statement highlights role of markets in promoting
innovation, the most cost-effective means of reducing greenhouse gas
emissions
WASHINGTON, May 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Environmental
Defense Fund (EDF) and the COMPETE Coalition today issued a joint
statement and general principles in support of federal legislation
enacting a uniform, economy-wide cap-and-trade program to control
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
The joint statement emphasizes that market-based policies will
provide the most cost-efficient and ...