This is similar to the cap and trade program enacted by the Clean Air Act of 1990, which reduced the sulfur emissions that cause acid rain, and it met the goals at a much lower cost than industry ...

California's cap-and-trade program, gamed by the oil companies, has so many exceptions it's nearly toothless. Opinion: Why California's climate solution isn't cutting it - Los Angeles Times ...

California’s cap-and-trade auctions produced more than $3 billion last year. The revenues have become “a major part” of political support for the rule, said Nichols, the former CARB chair.

Under cap and trade, regulators set a limit on the amount of greenhouse gases the state's economy can produce, lowering the limit bit by bit, year by year.

California is the only non-RGGI state that now also regulates carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, but its cap-and-trade program didn’t begin until 2013.. I fit linear mixed-effects ...

Energy prices in a cap and trade scheme would by necessity go up. After all, energy use—whether by a car engine or turning on the lights—creates a lot of emissions.

All three of the leading Democratic candidates have proposed cap-and-trade plans that auction 100% of their CO2 permits. This is, economically speaking, the same thing as a carbon tax.

“The cap-and-trade system of emissions trading is very difficult to control and its effects are diluted…It is precisely because I am a market practitioner that I know the flaws in the system ...

Former Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), who served as a lead author of the cap-and-trade bill that died in the Senate in 2010, is hoping BBB doesn't meet the same fate.

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.

Cap and trade may work in rich countries with the capacity to pay for transaction costs and technology development. But the money made from selling surplus permits may or may not finance ...

George Bush and the National Manufacturers Association hate the cap and trade idea. Although the bill garnered only 48 of 60 needed votes in the U.S. Senate, the bill isn't going to go away.