cap-and-trade
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Why resistance to California’s air pollution law is a sign of progress
The Golden State’s emissions-reduction plan now looks out for its most vulnerable communities -- or at least it could.
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California’s cap-and-trade program isn’t a tax, court rules
The ruling could help the state meet its ambitious climate targets.
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California governor signs historic climate bill
The state just took a huge step in the fight against climate change.
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California cap-and-trade program faces major hurdles
State lawmakers passed an ambitious climate bill, but it might be undermined.
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Carbon prices are way down, thanks to the Supreme Court’s hold on Clean Power Plan
How is this going to affect cap-and-trade plans? Let’s ask the oracle.
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Environmental justice scores a win in California carbon policy
Governor orders the state to collect data about cap-and-trade policies' impact on different communities, in a step toward environmental equity.
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How to Profit From Climate Change
As the world assembles in Doha to debate climate change policy, solutions, and costs, few attendees at “COP18” are looking at this as a profit-making opportunity. If they did, there might be agreements among nations instead of continued gridlock and finger-pointing. Over two decades ago, scientists warned that growing carbon pollution in the atmosphere would […]
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Critical List: Northeast cap-and-trade program dropped emissions; World Environment Day
It’s World Environment Day — bring out your green-minded celebrities! In the Northeast, power plants’ carbon emissions fell an average 23 percent during the three years of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative’s cap-and-trade program (compared to the previous three years). By 2050, Latin American and Caribbean countries could be racking up $100 billion in damages […]
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Economist smacks down skeptics for misreading his research
William D. Nordhaus — economist, Yale professor, serious person — has taken to a serious publication, The New York Review of Books, to put the smackdown on climate skeptics. The back story: Nordhaus has done working analysis of the economic impacts of implementing climate policies. In that awful Wall Street Journal op-ed we wrote about […]