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Maria Cantwell: “A cap-and-trade program might allow Wall Street to distort a carbon market for its own profits.”

On the recordAugust 5, 2009
A cap-and-trade program might allow Wall Street to distort a carbon market for its own profits.
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Maria Cantwell
Democratic · Washington

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Cantwell expresses concern about Wall Street's influence on cap-and-trade.

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