Many energy companies have embraced cap and trade schemes as a means to minimize the cost of reducing their carbon emissions, something that they feel under political pressure to try to do. However, they may be in for a rude surprise, as green activist groups seek to buy up emissions permits toward a very different end. As ClimateWire reports on a recent emissions credit auction:
The Clean Air Conservancy, an environmental group in Cleveland, bought 1,000 allowances in the first auction and…
