As Florida House Speaker, Marco Rubio Voiced Support For Emissions Caps

Florida Senator Marco Rubio is considered a likely Republican Vice Presidential nominee. But Rubio's past carries some positions now decried by the right. In 2008, as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, Rubio presided over a vote directing the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to create rules for limiting carbon emissions. In 2007, Rubio delivered this speech on energy, where he said "this nation and ultimately the world, are heading towards emissions caps," adding Florida could become the "Silicon Valley" of green energy. Update This was not as strong as the federal legislation known a "cap and trade" and a Rubio spokesman emails this 2007 op-ed in which the then House Speaker cites opposition to cap and trade legislation."