Cap & Trade in the USA
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4.12.11: As California gears up to launch an emissions trading scheme in 2012, AB 32, NNR surveys precedents in Europe and in the U.S.
We talk with Eron Bloomgarden, President of Environmental Markets at Equator, LLC, on the EU Emissions Trading System and barriers to passing a U.S. national emissions trading program, and with Jonathan Schrag, Executive Director of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a mandatory carbon market in 10 Northeastern states.
Tags: ab 32, cap and trade, carbon market, carbon trading, CO2, emissions trading, EU ETS, GHGs, greenhouse gas emissions, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, RGGI
Carbon Tax vs Cap and Trade?
Andrew Schenkel, Washington D.C. blogger for Mother Nature Network on the difference between a Carbon Tax and Cap and Trade, and whether Cap and Trade would affect our home energy bill.
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Tags: cap and trade, carbon tax, derivative, permits, utilities, waxman-markey bill
The Post Midterm Environment
11.06.10: Tuesday’s election put into stark relief that energy and the environment have become the new the third rail issues in American politics. Since then, every major environmental group in the country has called its members to arms to keep pressure on Washington for a transition to clean energy.
MNN’s Washington political blogger Andrew Schenkel puts the election in perspective environmentally and explains the brave new world of eco-Hill rhetoric.
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Tags: cap and tax, cap and trade, clean coal, climate change, climate deniers, coal, congress, democrats, domestic energy, energy independence, EPA, joe manchin, lisa jackson, natural gas, nrdc, oil, rand paul, republican, white house
