{"id":825,"date":"2009-05-25T19:55:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T01:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.envirobeat.com\/?p=699"},"modified":"2009-05-25T19:55:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T01:55:50","slug":"caps-trades-and-offsets-can-climate-plan-work-washingtonpostcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Caps, Trades and Offsets: Can Climate Plan Work? – washingtonpost.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
It sounds like alchemy, an act of bureaucratic magic. Under the climate-change bill just approved by a House committee, the U.S. government would literally make a commodity — as tradable as a Pontiac or a pork belly — out of thin air.<\/p>\n