Mother Jones

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Flack for Ditching Regional Carbon Pact

Last month, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro withdrew from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI (pronounced “Reggie” ...
Marketplace

A refresher on how some East Coast states cap-and-trade carbon

A group of states on the East Coast has been operating a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions for years. But the compact made headlines this fall as some states weighed whether to join the effort ...
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California extends cap-and-trade, as Indigenous nations grapple with the trade-offs

In 2013, California launched its cap-and-trade program, a carbon credit market that allows companies and governments to engage with offset projects that incentivize investments in planting trees, ...
Seeking Alpha

Post-Election Impact Insights For The Compliance Carbon Markets

State-led carbon markets like California’s Cap-and-Trade and RGGI are expected to remain resilient and may strengthen despite federal climate policy shifts under Trump. Legal resilience and ...
Los Angeles Times

California’s cap-and-trade program contributes to the golden state’s ambitious goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2045

In April, Californians received a credit on their utilities bill. This credit is called the California Climate Credit, which is a part of the state’s cap-and-trade program. While investigating the ...
LAist

California lawmakers haven’t renewed cap-and-trade, leaving billions on the table

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ABC7

California Gov. Newsom extends cap-and-trade program aimed at curbing carbon emissions

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday extended a signature state program aimed at reducing planet-warming emissions through 2045, a move Democrats cheered but Republicans warned ...
Time

Obama Talks Climate Change. California Is Acting on It

It’s not the happiest time to be an environmentalist. Climate change hit home last year with brutal force: 2012’s historic drought singed much of the Midwest, turning farms to dust and withering the ...
Time

Obama Calls for Energy Reform—But Doesn’t Mention a Carbon Cap

It may be time to bury cap-and-trade. Speaking in his first prime-time televised address from the Oval Office, President Barack Obama hit a range of topics. He promised the people of the Gulf Coast, ...
The Washington Post

In Defense of Cap-and-Trade

George F. Will argued against a cap-and-trade policy to reduce carbon emissions yet suggested an alternative with the same uncertainties and administrative problems that he decried in cap-and-trade ...
JD Supra

Seeing the Forest for the Trees, and Protecting it: a “Cap and Trade” Litigation Tale

In the complex world of “cap and trade” emissions regimes, acquiring credits to offset a company’s pollution portfolio requires decision makers to see the forest for the trees. And sometimes to buy ...