California has long been an international leader in policies to improve air quality and in recent years has added climate change policy to its leadership role. The design and implementation of the California cap-and-trade program have presented many challenges, but CARB is committed to the ...
California is considering the adoption of a cap-and-trade regulatory mechanism for regulating the greenhouse gas emissions from electricity and perhaps other industries. Two options have been widely discussed for implementing cap-and-trade in the electricity industry. The first is to regulate the emiss...
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Changes Sought to California Cap-and-Trade.Changes Sought to California Cap-and-Trade.California's legislative analyst says lawmakers should modify the state's cap-and-trade law on greenhouse emissions to ease spending restrictions on the program's revenues.WebsterKeeley...
Jerry Brown and legislative leaders released a plan Monday to extend through 2030 California’s cap-and-trade program, a key piece of the state’s quest to fight climate change by drastically reducing emissions from greenhouse gases. The deal updates how refineries, utilities and other carbon ...
With Brown's signature, California's cap-and-trade program will survive through 2030. The program caps carbon emissions and requires polluters to obtain permits for each ton of carbon they release. California Assemblyman Devon Mathis (R-Visalia) voted for the bill despite what he described as fe...
("GHG") emissions in California. Once underway, California's cap and trade program may serve as a test case for other states and the nation. Other programs, like the Climate Action Reserve and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, have established GHG markets in the United States tha...
California Extends GHG Cap-and-Trade ProgramMegan H. Berge
California's cap-and-trade program will survive through 2030. The program caps carbon emissions and requires polluters to obtain permits for each ton of carbon they release.California Assemblyman Devon Mathis (R-Visalia) voted for the bill despite what he described as fear tactics."Our job is ...
SAN FRANCISCO, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Governor Jerry Brown of California signed a bill Tuesday to extend the Golden State's cap-and-trade program, a market-based program to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants. ...