Skip to main content

'Cap-and-trade' anti-pollution bill explained

  • Story Highlights
  • Congress considers limits or "caps" on all U.S. pollution emissions
  • Firms that come under limits could "trade" allowances in exchange for rewards
  • Critics: Cap-and-trade would lead to lost jobs, rationing oil, coal, natural gas
  • Supporters: Cap-and-trade would lower energy prices, create jobs
  • EXPLAINER
  • E-mail
  • Save
  • Print