Reuters: The threat of tougher regulation from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should ease industrial opposition to a cap-and-trade market on greenhouse gases, a U.S. lawmaker said on Monday. U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, co-sponsor of a bill that would cut the nation’s emissions of greenhouse gases associated with global climate change, said the EPA’s authority to act should convince industrial lobbyists that it is in their best interest to work with Congress on the issue. “Now you …