Senators from manufacturing states have been among the most skeptical of cap-and-trade legislation. One would expect, then, that they’d be thrilled by the prospect of utility-only cap-and-trade, which ...

Chairman Pence and other members, thank you for the invitation to speak today on the distributional burden of a cap-and-trade system. In my remarks today I will explore the economic burden on ...

Now that cap-and-trade (emission trading to reduce greenhouse gas emissions) is more or less off the table, our politicians are starting to talk about something else—or, at least, something that looks ...

Experts say that greenhouse-gas trading designed under the Kyoto Protocol was an important first step in reducing emissions increasingly linked to climate change. William Chandler, a senior policy ...

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Twenty years ago, a group of Northeastern states signed on to a plan to reduce the greenhouse gases spewing from power plants by making generators pay for the carbon they release. Since then, the ...

Acid rain was one of the most significant environmental issues in the United States in the late twentieth century. Sulphur dioxide (SO₂) and nitrogen oxides (NOₓ) from fossil-fuel power plants ...

North America's largest compliance carbon market is undergoing its most significant structural changes since inception.

Participating factories emit up to 30 per cent less particulate pollution than non-market counterparts. But can the scheme ...