As Matt Yglesias notes, the current intellectual father of the modern Free Market, anti-government movement had no problem with government controlling air pollution. There is no inherent "right" under a free market to pollute the air.
People who opposed a carbon tax or cap and trade were actually opposing the most free market ways of dealing with air pollution. All that is left is something that looks much more like government regulation of the kind free market people don't like-mandating emission standards. But they only have themselves to blame. John McCain at one time actually understood this, but turned his back on it.
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