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Tom Carper: “I never heard much of cap-and-trade, in fact, until 1990 when a fellow named George Herbert Walker Bush, our President…”

On the recordJuly 15, 2009
I never heard much of cap-and-trade, in fact, until 1990 when a fellow named George Herbert Walker Bush, our President, in signing the Clean Air Act into law, called for establishing a cap-and-trade regimen.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper credits George H.W. Bush for introducing cap-and-trade in the Clean Air Act.

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