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Jay Rockefeller: Make no mistake. The ETS is not about the environment. It's about a new source of revenue for cash-strapped Europe.

On the recordJune 5, 2012
Make no mistake. The ETS is not about the environment. It's about a new source of revenue for cash-strapped Europe.
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Jay Rockefeller
Democratic · West Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Rockefeller argues that the EU's emissions trading scheme is revenue-driven, not environmentally motivated.

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