Foley Partner Mark Thimke was quoted in an article that appeared in Renewable Energy World on March 23, 2011 titled "Is Cap-and-Trade Kaput?" Thimke discusses the abandonment of carbon trading and increased expansion of renewable energy in the United States, stating that the economy is mostly responsible for the country’s lack of interest in carbon credits. He adds that renewable energy seems to have traction in Congress, noting that it seems to be divorced from climate change and able to move forward in the political world.
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