He also plans to go easier on dirty industries: to begin with, he would distribute most of the permits to pollute free of charge, whereas Mr Obama intends to auction them all from the start.Ultimately these nuances are likely to prove relatively inconsequential.
Sir Iain took aim at those who saw spy agencies polluting a free internet.
So, in effect, emitting carbon is starting to get more expensive for all those companies that have been polluting for free for all these years.
But if companies and governments can continue to pollute for free, it's difficult to see how those goals will be met.
Jeff Holmstead's job as their lobbyist is to delay any clean air rules, clean water rules or climate change laws that threaten the billions in profit these companies make by getting to pollute for free.
It was also included in the legislation passed by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, but the oil industry is trying to raid these funds so it can continue to pollute for free.
We hope that like the anti-apartheid divestment movement of the 1980s, this effort will help wake up our politicians and reveal the immorality of letting the fossil fuel companies pollute for free.
If you add the numerous taxpayer subsidies for the production of nuclear fuel, for the disposal of nuclear fuel, for the Hudson River water Indian Point takes and pollutes for free (3 billion gallons a day!), insurance and others, to the cost of producing power, it simply isn't cheaper.
It also has a massive, polluting, carbon free-rider pass over the rest of the economy.
Though polluted, it is free-flowing along its main stem and provides habitat for salmon and other migrating fish.
Green Mountain started to push "less polluting" power, instead of the pollution-free kind.
