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Jim Inhofe: Can you further explain how purchasing of the allowances and the subsequent trading of them will not reduce greenhouse…

On the recordAugust 5, 2009
Can you further explain how purchasing of the allowances and the subsequent trading of them will not reduce greenhouse gas emissions, I think you said, by one ounce?
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

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Inhofe questions the effectiveness of carbon trading in reducing emissions.

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