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The state of California introduced its own cap-and-trade program in 2013. The program was initially limited to fewer than 400 businesses, including power plants, large industrial plants, and fuel distributors. Its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 was successfully me...
Rules for the design of the long-awaited Californian greenhouse gas cap-and-trade scheme have been adopted unopposed by the state's regulator, the Air Resources Board.1 The scheme is part of a framework of regulatory and market mechanisms under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006...
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cap-and-trade Wikipedia adj(prenominal) (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) denoting a scheme which allows companies with high greenhouse gas emissions to buy an emission allowance from companies which have fewer emissions, in a bid to reduce the overall impact to the environment ...
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...
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 ...
On 22 September 2017, Governor Brown of California, Ontario Premier Wynne and Québec Premier Couillard signed a linking agreement extending the existing link of the California and Québec cap-and-trade programs to also include the Ontario program. The three programs, all belonging to the Western ...
Cities have emerged as important actors in climate change policy, implementing measures to reduce emissions from transportation, buildings, and waste. More recently, states such as California have implemented cap-and-trade programs to control greenhouse gases. However, a state-level cap handcuffs cities...
On the heels of the Liberal government's ruinous Green Energy Act (GEA), which has led to some of the highest and fastest-increasing industrial electricity rates in the country, Ontario is now set to join an existing cap-and-trade market with California and Quebec next January, mandating ...