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In Washington, President Barack Obama is said to be having trouble enacting his carbon challenge. Here in New Hampshire, it looks as if we’re having better luck.
The Obama administration’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year includes a plan to reduce global climate change by putting caps on the amount of carbon pumped into the air by private industry and then selling permits to exceed the caps.
The program, known as cap-and-trade, would be expected to reduce carbon emissions significantly during the coming decades as the caps become tighter and the permits more costly.
The enactment of cap-and-trade would dovetail with a United Nations effort to reach a global accord on greenhouse gases by the end of this year, an accord that would replace the struggling Kyoto Protocol of 1997.
But the Obama proposal is meeting with stiff opposition from many Republicans, some business groups and even a few Democrats in Washington. The critics contend it would raise the cost of virtually everything and hamper U.S. foreign trade.
Meanwhile, and closer to home, carbon pollution has become the stuff of a good-natured competition between Keene and Portsmouth.
The idea, prompted by a challenge from Keene, is to see which city can persuade the greatest percentage of its staff to take
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