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- Cap and Trade: What It Will Cost You
- Depending on who's counting, the new bill in Congress will raise your energy costs between $175 and $3,100 per year. The good news: It's likely to be closer to the low end. Oddly, that's also the bad news. ...
- Articles 2009-07-22
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- The Bureaucratic Cost of Cap-and-Trade Legislation
- Cap-and-trade legisation promises to load the plates of numerous government agencies with a lot of work. There will be studies to conduct and reports to prepare; rebates for low-income families to handle; and emissions to auction and regulate. This means more employees and, in turn, higher administrative costs -- to the tune of...
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Cap and Trade May Have to Wait Until Next Year
- With each passing day, cap and trade legislation in the United States looks more likely to become a bystander casualty of the political fight over healthcare reform. The country's voter base has become agitated, feeling that too much change is happening at once. Democrats whose offices are...
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Putting a Cost on Cap-and-Trade Legislation
- Determining the cost of cap-and-trade legislation on U.S. households is one of those inextricable tasks that promises to produce disputed and controversial results. So there was some reason to breathe a sigh of relief -- albeit a small one -- when the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office issued its report late Friday on the...
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- "Cap and Trade" Winners and Losers
- What could have enormous impacts on global warming and U.S. business was debated this week in the U.S. Senate. Starting to be hacked out are details of proposed "Cap and Trade" legislation aimed at reducing carbon dioxide over the next five decades. Although the bill was defeated June 6, it...
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Energy Roundup: Kansas Allows Coal, China Notches Up Solar, Cap and Trade Loopholes and More
- Struggling coal slips one through -- Several days after LS Power finally gave up on plans for a 750 megawatt coal plant in Michigan, to the general glee of environmentalists, Sunflower Electric is benefiting from the departure of Kansas governor Katherine Sebelius, now the U.S. secretary of health and human...
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Cap and Trade? More Like 'Cap and Tax'
- Michael Steinberg submits: Now I finally understand the concept of how cap and trade is supposed to fight global warming and the way the politics are playing out in Congress. The best explanation I found has come from the Financial Times editorial “Cap and trade or coach and horses.” President...
- External links 2009-05-20
- EIA: Energy Prices Inch Up in Early Years of Cap-and-Trade
- The Energy Information Administration threw its hat into the climate bill analysis ring this week -- adding to the list of studies that have tried to determine what cap-and-trade legislation will cost for the average U.S. household. What they found was similar to other recent reports: price increases will inch up modestly...
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Carbon Cap-and-Trade Could Increase Coal Usage
- Bill Paul submits: It’s official. President Obama wants cap-and-trade. “So I ask this Congress,” he said in his speech last week, “to send me legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy in America.” But will cap-and-trade drive the production...
- External links 2009-03-01
- Sarah Palin Blasts Cap-and-Trade Plan
- Gov. Sarah Palin's op-ed piece in the Washington Post blasting President Obama's energy plan erases any doubt -- in my mind, at least -- that she is positioning herself for the 2012 presidential campaign. Palin's recent decision to resign as Alaska's governor already had politicos and regular-folks alike speculating...
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- NRDF sues EPA over mercury "cap-and-trade" plan.(In The News)(National Resources Defense Fund )
- The National Resources Defense Fund NRDF has filed suit against the U.S. EPA to prevent a plan to limit mercury emissions using the "cap-and-trade" plan outlined in the 1990 Clean Air Act. While this method was successful in reducing sulf The National Resources Defense Fund NRDF...
- Research articles 2004-06-01
- NRDF Sues EPA over Mercury "Cap-and-Trade" Plan
- The National Resources Defense Fund NRDF has filed suit against the U.S. EPA to prevent a plan to limit mercury emissions using the "cap-and-trade" plan outlined in the 1990 Clean Air Act. While this method was successful in reducing suflur diThe National Resources Defense Fund NRDF has filed suit against...
- Research articles 2004-06-01
- State Legislators Reject Bush Mercury Cap and Trade Plan
- WASHINGTON, DC ENS ? The National Conference of State Legislatures' NCSL Environment and Natural Resources Committee voted on Friday to reject the Bush administration's cap-and-trade proposal to regulate mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants. The committee voted 6-3 to reject a resolution sponsored by North Dakota State Senator Randel...
- Research articles 2004-05-03
- Sixteen States Sue U.S. EPA Over Mercury Cap-and Trade Rule
- WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> Sixteen states filed a new lawsuit today in federal court challenging the final rules published June 9, by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA which establish a cap-and-trade system for regulating harmful mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants. The EPA announced on May 31...
- Research articles 2006-06-19
- Greenhouse Gas Cap and Trade Systems Get Further Consideration in D.C.
- A mandatory cap and trade system for greenhouse gases GHG seems more and more inevitable as policy makers in the U.S. start to pull together ideas as to how one should operate. However, roadblocks remain and were outlined in Washington in late April.face=+Bold; Senate Environment & Public Works Committee...
- Research articles 2007-05-02
- The cost of cap and trade
- How expensive would the cap-and-trade measures (which limit each industry's C[O.sub.2] emissions and allow them to sell any emission allowances that they don't use) of the Climate Stewardship Act be if that measure becomes law? One way to tell may be to revisit an analysis of the Kyoto Accord, the...
- Research articles 2007-03-05
- EPA Report: Eastern States Cut Air Pollution with NOx Cap-and-Trade Program
- WAHINGTON, Sept. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- EPA is releasing its first annual NOx Budget Trading Program 2003 Progress and Compliance Report. The 2003 report assesses the NOx Budget Trading Program, a market-based cap and trade program created to reduce nitrogWAHINGTON, Sept. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- EPA is releasing its...
- Research articles 2004-09-02
- BP CEO Pushes Cap-and-Trade Over Carbon Tax, Calls for Incentives to Fight Climate Change
- BP's new CEO Tony Hayward told a group of legislators in Berlin recently that he believes a cap-and-trade program is the best way to fight climate change and called for incentives to transition to a low-carbon economy.BP's new CEO Tony Hayward told a group of legislators in Berlin recently that...
- Research articles 2007-06-20
- U.S. EPA Publishes Analysis of Cap-and-Trade Bill
- The U.S. EPA released last week an economic analysis that found that the implementation of the cap-and-trade program as recommended by U.S. Senate bill S. 2191 would reduce U.S. greenhouse gas GHG emissions by about 40% in 2030 and 56% in 2050. The U.S. EPA released last week an economic...
- Research articles 2008-03-24
- Cap-and-Trade and Carbon Taxes: Equal Opportunity Boondoggles for Governments
- Economists have long argued over whether cap-and-trade, in which emissions permits are traded, or a carbon tax would be better. The answer, once politicians start working, may be neither. The dominant cap-and-trade proposal in the United States have drawn ire for its lack of focus and attempts...
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
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