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Designing a Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program for the
U.S. Prepared for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change Robert
R. Nordhaus Kyle W. Danish Eileen Claussen, President, Pew
Center on Global Climate Change In response to the goal of the
U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change to stabilize
greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would prevent
dangerous human interference with the climate system, the United
States has instituted a number of programs since 1992. These
include voluntary greenhouse gas mitigation programs, research
and development, and a subset of energy polici