A trillion dollars to special interest groups from this? Amazing, and what a waste. Forcing business to become less profitable and less effective, this surely is going to effect the 'free marketplace' in a negative way. But then they're not about 'free markets'--check out the book Freakonomics.

Yeah - written by somebody who is "an adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute", which is funded by corporations and foundations which have a vested interest in polluting as much as possible. Furthermore, it's reported by Fox "We decide, you believe" News.