U.S. warms to climate change policies (The Providence Journal) It may take another year or two, but the federal government is getting closer to embracing climate change policy such as a cap and trade system on carbon emissions, which would monumentally change the global economy, and hopefully, peel back the already visible effects of global warming, said Vicki Arroyo, the director of policy for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, in Arlington, Va. [News Source]