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The notion that it is "unfair" for the United States, the world's largest cumulative carbon polluter, to reduce pollution unless all countries take on similar commitments, has gained traction as China and India's greenhouse gas emissions have grown.
If Mr Obama's new rules help cajole the world's largest polluter to do more to cut emissions, then second-best would be much better than nothing.
Once, this method might have precluded the economic flexibility of a tax namely, that the abatement effort can vary from polluter to polluter, according to cost.
The cost of carbon is far too low to force electric utilities in Europe to switch from burning coal, a major polluter, to much cleaner natural gas.
But the recent rush to reveal all has been prompted as much by the "Nosecho effect" as by the retroactive nature of the legislation, which forces the original polluter to clean up an affected site.Other forces are at work, too.
Europe is pushing America, the world's biggest polluter, to take direct action to cut its emissions rather than rely on trading emission cuts with other countries and planting new forests.
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He said the government was paying polluters to pollute less under the Emissions Reduction Fund.
Tony Abbott would rather pay polluters to pollute and keep his head in the sand".
Through a reverse auction, it pays polluters to pollute less – mostly paying farmers not to clear their land.
Who's going to pay the polluters to reduce pollution?
An example of a federal environmental permitting barrier is the Clean Air Act's New Source Review (NSR), which requires large point-source polluters to install pollution control components.
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