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How Should Climate Change Legislation Regulate Transportation Emissions?
February 17, 2009 |
7:52 a.m.
NOTE: This week's discussion is taking place in conjunction with NationalJournal.com's Transportation expert blog.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., is promising to pass global warming legislation through his panel by Memorial Day. As lawmakers begin to craft a climate change package, how should they design a cap-and-trade program to control greenhouse gases from the transportation sector?
What part of the fuel chain should be forced to obtain emission allowances? Should revenues from transportation sources be returned to the industry to help companies reduce their greenhouse gases? And if so, how?
-- Margaret Kriz and Lisa Caruso, NationalJournal.com
