Bob Kerrey (D-NE) changes stance on cap and trade [View all]
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Robynn Tysver
Democrat Bob Kerrey, who once argued that lawmakers had a “moral” duty to support an anti-pollution proposal known as cap and trade, says he's had a change of heart.
Kerrey says he came to realize over the past several months — after talking with Nebraska businesses and reading about Europe's troubled cap-and-trade program — that the controversial plan to limit carbon emissions was “not the answer.”
But, he says, he still believes climate change is real. And, unlike Republican Deb Fischer, he's convinced that it's man-made and that something needs to be done.
“I don't have the answer,” Kerrey said Friday. “(But) I've found over the course of my life, some of my most productive work begins right after I discover something I believed was wrong.”
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