They said the cap-and-trade system would encourage major polluters to reduce emissions and suggested that the profits could be used to fund Oregon’s struggling transportation network and ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature work to extend California’s cap-and-trade program, a key climate policy under threat from Trump’s administration.

California’s ambitious cap-and-trade system will soon cover 85 percent of the state’s economy and reduce carbon dioxide emissions to their 1990 levels by 2020.

Federal legislation to launch a nationwide cap-and-trade system, known as the Waxman-Markey bill, died in the Senate in 2009 after pushback from corporations. Some Republican lawmakers branded it ...

Repealing cap and trade was the first initiative they submitted for certification, but organizers say they’ve reached the thresholds for all six, with a grand total of 2.7 million signatures.

(Reuters) -Canada on Wednesday said it plans to unveil a cap and trade system starting in 2026 for limiting emissions from the oil and gas sector, a step toward fulfilling one of Prime Minister Justin ...

Canada on Wednesday said it plans to unveil a cap and trade system starting in 2026 for limiting emissions from the oil and gas sector, a step toward fulfilling one of Prime Minister Justin ...

By example, a nearly 15-year-old cap-and-trade system among nine northeast states that covers power plants lowered emissions by 1.3 million tons per year, according to a 2021 study.

However, a cap-and-trade system has wide international acceptance. It is effectively an indirect form of carbon taxation and it can be implemented in India thanks to a recent amendment to the ...

But it’s fair to say that our cap-and-trade system has done little to date to reduce emissions. A high-enough carbon price, with teeth, would certainly do better, as would a better designed cap ...

A panel that advises state regulators says the mountain of unused credits to burn fossil fuels amassed by oil companies and others is jeopardizing California's ability to meet its climate goals.