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A former adviser to the Obama administration on energy and environmental issues says there’s been too much emphasis on the dire warnings of the impact of climate legislation pending on Capitol Hill.

A former adviser to the Obama administration on energy and environmental issues says there’s been too much emphasis on the dire warnings of the impact of climate legislation pending on Capitol Hill.

“Too often people focus on a few losers rather than the many winners,” Howard Learner of the Environmental Law and Policy Center said in an interview. Learner spoke at a Climate Change and Green Jobs conference Friday in Madison co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the law firm Godfrey & Kahn.

Utilities have raised concerns that the greenhouse gas-regulation bill as passed in the U.S. House of Representatives would penalize coal-dependent utilities through the manner in which credits for emitting carbon dioxide into the air would be allocated.Read Full Article

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