EPA restrictions on CO2 will increase jobless for decades-Congressional Budget Office

• "US carbon limits to 'slightly' raise jobless rate," Bloomberg Business Week, 5/5/10, by Simon Lomax,

"U.S. limits on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists have linked to climate change

• would raise the unemployment rate,
• the Congressional Budget Office said today.

If greenhouse gas limits were imposed on U.S. industry, “total employment

• during the next few decades
  

• would be slightly lower than would be the case
  
• in the absence of such policies,”
  
• the CBO said today in a report."

• via Tom Nelson

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