Why Oil Companies May Be Our Best Hope for Climate Change Legislation in Congress

February 19, 2010 By Charles Komanoff

Why Oil Companies May Be Our Best Hope for Climate Change Legislation in Congress (AlterNet)

“All these fights trace back to the fact that current energy markets don’t value climate change properly. So states are essentially trying to find a backward way into carbon pricing, first by subsidizing renewables, and now by trying to save nuclear. It’s a really messy way of getting there.”

Energy analyst Alex Gilbert, in How Retiring Nuclear Power Plants May Undercut U.S. Climate Goals, by Brad Plumer, in The New York Times, June 13. (NB: Quote was stitched together from direct quote and reporter’s commentary.)

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Why Oil Companies May Be Our Best Hope for Climate Change Legislation in Congress