A three-year summary of America’s first carbon trading program was released on Monday. The news is pretty good for anyone who cares about reducing carbon emissions; it’s inconvenient for anyone hell-bent on preventing America from implementing a carbon pricing plan. According to the program administrator of the Regional Greenhouse Gas … [continued]
Administration Put Dirty Energy Interests Ahead of New Jersey Residents and State’s Economic Health TRENTON, N.J. (June 6, 2012) – Governor Chris Christie and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection failed to follow legal due process and safeguard the economic and health interests of New Jersey citizens when … [continued]
Northeastern states participating in America’s first carbon cap and trade program have outperformed the rest of the country in GDP growth and reduction in global warming pollution. […]
California’s starting a state cap-and-trade system to help address global warming later this year. A new report from the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office finds that the program could be raising up to $14 billion. The money will be raised from CO2 pollution credits. Auctioning begins this fall and it’s expected that … [continued]
Success in lowering emissions in the RGGI states has resulted in talk of tightening the pollution limits to further reduce greenhouse gases. In January, six of the nine participating states – Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, Delaware and Rhode Island – announced they will permanently eliminate 72 percent of the … [continued]
A new report says New Jersey risks hundreds of millions in future revenue by withdrawing from RGGI.
In yet another resounding success for cap & trade policies, today carbon dioxide pollution capped by the 10 participating RGGI states of the US Northeast has been reduced to its all-time low of a mere 124 million short tons.
Power plant CO2 emissions in the states that participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) cap & trade dropped 34% below the cap in 2011, according to a new report from Environment Northeast, at Point Carbon News.
So… are they cowering in caves, like Rush Limbaugh says?
Emissions from power plants in states served by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative have fallen to their lowest levels since the CO2 auction program launched in 2009, according to a new report from Environment Northeast.
Driven by the growing number of energy-efficiency standards in states around the U.S., ratepayer budgets for efficiency programs climbed to record levels in 2011, to $6.8 billion. That’s a 25% increase over 2010 investments, putting the country on track to invest roughly $12 billion by 2020 […]
Here’s one last year-end round-up, a good one on U.S. climate policy from the World Resources Institute that I figured I had to share: by Kevin Kennedy As the year winds down, it’s a good time to take stock of climate policy in the United States. Here’s a quick round … [continued]
