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Global Warming 'Alarmism'
Is Hurting New Jersey Economy, Say Conservatives
Kevin Mooney
CNSNews.com
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Individual liberty and economic freedom are under assault in
New Jersey where anti-industrial regulatory schemes are gaining
traction because of global warming "alarmism," public
officials and taxpayer activists declared last week in Trenton.
State lawmakers in New Jersey and other states have succumbed
to the "greatest scam" of the past 100 years in the
form of Kyoto-type mandatory emissions caps at the expense of
their own citizenry and financial well-being, Republican Assemblyman
Mike Doherty said in an interview with Cybercast News Service.
(The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions; the United States is not a signatory to the agreement.)
Doherty was one of several speakers at the two-day "Defending
the American Dream Summit" organized by Americans for Prosperity
(AFP), a Washington, D.C.-based grassroots group that supports
free markets and conservative ideas. The economic liabilities
of emissions restrictions figured prominently among the topics
discussed at the event.
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While the United States, at the federal level, is not part of
the Kyoto Protocol, a number of states have enacted their own
environmental regulations replete with climate change "cap
and trade" policies, Doherty said.
With "cap and trade," the government sets a limit,
a cap, on how much carbon a company can emit into the air. The
company can then buy or trade "carbon credits" to offset
its pollution.
The New Jersey Global Warming Act, which became law last year,
is the most restrictive and economically harmful such measure
in the entire country, said Doherty, who explained why the law
is a Kyoto-type policy at the state level.
The New Jersey law calls for greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced
to where they were in 1990 "no later" than 2020. It
further stipulates that emissions not exceed 80 percent of their
2006 levels "no later" than 2050.
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