SUGAR LAND, TX — (Marketwire) — 11/19/12 — Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) — The incoming Congress may consider enacting a carbon tax to preempt the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (Washington, D.C.) from issuing draft rules on , speakers told an energy briefing in Washington on Friday. “I don–t see cap and trade coming back — it–s politically poisonous,” said former congressman Rick Boucher, now a partner at the law firm of Sidley Austin LLP (Chicago, Illinois). “But over the next year or two, greenhouse gas (GHG) regulation is a near certainty, given what EPA is doing. The question is how.”
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