http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/14745/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/world-news-shows-how-environmental-regulations-backfire <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/jeff-poor">Jeff Poor</a> </div> </div> </div> <p >Call it a preview of what could happen when the U.S. government steps in to regulate where carbon emissions by making it too expensive to burn fossil fuels – they’ll be exported overseas and burned anyway, negating the perceived benefit.</p> <br /> <p >A July 30 segment on ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” showed what happens to so-called e-waste, that is, old computers and televisions. In fact, they’re shipped overseas.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/world-news-shows-how-environmental-regulations-backfire" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Business Business Government abc Africa consumerelectronics e-waste ElizabethVargas environmentalregulation Ghana RonClaiborne WorldNews Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:20:34 +0000 admin 26664 at http://archive2.mrc.org