The Heritage Foundation’s The Foundry has a good piece responding to the two liberal senators’ recent WaPo oped, with the help of some CEI analysis; here’s a taste.

Proponents of a cap-and-trade program for carbon dioxide often point to the acid rain cap-and-trade program as a success story — a reason to pass a carbon capping CO2 bill. But the market was already responding and reducing sulfur dioxide before the start of the program. Moreover, the acid rain program and a carbon dioxide cap-and-trade program are on two entirely different scales. Reducing carbon emissions is far more complex and ambitious than sulfur dioxide. A better comparison would be taking a look at what’s going on in Europe. We in the U.S. should be so fortunate that Europe’s gone through with a cap-and-trade program, because it is a perfect example of what not to do.