While the environment and climate change have been a major issue for Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and John McCain, R-Ariz., along the presidential campaign trail, the biggest impact of their proposed solutions on the environmental pollution market may be in creating customers for new, related products.
Both of the major party candidates have promised to address the issue of climate change through a "cap and trade" system that would limit the amount of carbon pollutants a company or facility is allowed to emit, with those that stay under their limit allowed to sell their remaining allotment of pollution "credits" on the open market.
The theory is that allowing businesses to sell excess pollution capacity will create an incentive to innovate to reduce pollutants in an effort to profit from greater credit sales.
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