The World

Cap-and-Trade Takeaway

What midterm elections tell us about political support for legislating a limit to greenhouse gas emissions.

Midterm elections swept out a slew of Democratic candidates from the House of Representatives, many of whom had cast controversial votes in favor of last year’s cap-and-trade bill to cut greenhouse gas emissions. LOE’s Washington correspondent Mitra Taj reports on what this year’s election results tell us about popular support for legislating solutions to climate change.