Obama Says Cap and Trade Could Be Split from Green Jobs Measure still favored a bill that would combine measures to encourage jobs in green-energy fields with the establishment of a trading mechanism for emissions. Isolating the cap-and-trade proposal would make it easier for Democrats who oppose putting a price on greenhouse-gas emissions to set that part of the climate bill aside, and vote for the more popular jobs incentives now contained in the wide-ranging measure. Mr. Obama pushed in his State of the Union speech last week for "a comprehensive energy and climate bill with incentives that will finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America." The climate bill in the Senate is opposed by legislators from both...

White House Budget to Eliminate Oil and Gas Subsidies, Fund Green Jobs The truth is, moving green energy from theory to practice will take awhile. And while the end of subsidies is a positive step, it will likely have little ...

Green energy 'feed-in tariff' plan gets muted welcome Plans to reward eco-friendly householders for the green energy that their solar panels produce have received a muted welcome. The clean energy cashback plan ...

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