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Under this program, states sell emission allowances through auctions and invest the proceeds in consumer benefits including energy efficiency, renewable energy, and other clean energy technologies.[read more]
Imagine What A Real Cap Could Do
RGGI (pronounced “Reggie”), the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, has capped carbon dioxide emissions in ten northeastern U.S. states. Well, it isn’t much of a cap, given how loose it really is. Still, the latest analysis that tries to follow the money points to $1.6 billion in economic benefits for the economies in these ten states....[read more]
New Hampshire Senate Votes to Stay in RGGI
In a two-to-one vote the New Hampshire Senate approved a bill designed to maintain the state's involvement in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). After the state's House of Representatives approved legislation in March that would remove New Hampshire from the ten state cap-and-trade program, the Senate chose to amend New...[read more]
World Energy Renews Contract With Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiativee
World Energy Solutions, an energy management services firm, has renewed its contract with Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a non-profit corporation created to provide technical and administrative services to the states participating in the RGGI, to supply auction software and services for the ten state RGGI programs through...[read more]
Carbon Cap-and-Trade Moves Forward
Cross-posted from SustainabilityLawBlog.com:The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), made up of 10 eastern states, announced that the first auction of carbon dioxide emissions allowances will take place on September 10, 2008, with a second auction on December 17, 2008. Currently, the RGGI initiative applies only to power plants....[read more]
While I was filling out my NCAA brackets Environmental Capital was discussing carbon prices
From Environmental Capital: [The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative], the first mandatory scheme to limit carbon emissions in the U.S. to become operational, announced today it will sell the first batch of emissions permits on Sept.10, formally launching the much-awaited program that many see as a possible template for future federal...[read more]
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