Dec 5, 2011 ... Newt Gingrich went too far when he claimed that “I've never favored cap-and-trade.” It's true he's never favored the approach taken by Democrats, but he said in 2007 that he would “strongly support” cap-and-trade if combined with “a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions.” Furthermore ...
Jan 29, 2016 ... Crist used a portion of this clip during his 2010 Senate primary campaign against Rubio in an attempt to show Rubio favored a cap-and-trade program. WFSU, which operates The Florida Channel covering state government, demanded Crist stop using footage of the show because of a law barring use of its ...
In a Fox News interview on Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich claimed that he “never favored cap and trade,” four years after he expressed “strong support” for a cap-and-trade program to reduce carbon pollution. Gingrich told questioner Ken Cuccinelli, the Virginia attorney general, that the climate ...
Jul 19, 2017 ... California has already raked in $3.4 billion from cap-and-trade auctions since the Legislature implemented the program in 2012, much of that money going to politically favored projects. Brown and his allies in the legislature loaded the reauthortization bill, AB 398, with exemptions and sweeteners for ...
Dec 21, 2015 ... The company has never put its muscle behind a tax on carbon to confront global warming, though it claims to support the concept. ... "But a carbon tax strikes me as a more direct, a more transparent and a more effective approach" than the complex cap-and-trade bill that Congress was considering.
I never favored cap and trade.