RR16/scam

From the page: "About 20 years ago Enron was owner and operator of an interstate network of natural gas pipelines, and had transformed itself into a billion-dollar-a-day commodity trader, buying and selling contracts and their derivatives to deliver natural gas, electricity, internet bandwidth, whatever. The 1990 Clean Air Act amendments authorized the Environmental Protection Agency to put a cap on how much pollutant the operator of a fossil-fueled plant was allowed to emit. In the early 1990s Enron had helped establish the market for, and became the major trader in, EPAâ€s $20 billion-per-year sulphur dioxide cap-and-trade program, the forerunner of todayâ€s proposed carbon credit trade. This commodity exchange of emission allowances caused Enronâ€s stock to rapidly rise. "