In today’s Rocky Mountain News Chris Green and I have an op-ed on Obama’s climate policy plans. It starts as follows:

With the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States, debates over climate policy are going to get a much needed boost. The Obama plan for climate policy includes one very good idea – investment in new technologies and infrastructure – and one very bad one: cap-and-trade.

To understand why cap-and-trade is such a bad idea, we need only look to lessons from Europe’s experiences.

Please read the whole thing here. We welcome your comments.