The success of the SO2 program has convinced almost everyone that trading can be useful environmental policy. The U.S. already trades wetlands, water pollution, and fishing rights; in what could ...

His plan: Raise money to help pay for the tarp systems through a greenhouse gas trading market in California ... companies to buy and sell pollution “rights” like stocks is now at the fore ...

Thus the right to pollute is a commodity bought and sold in a market. The idea of trading pollution rights was part of the reauthorized 1990 Clean Air Act. The program successfully reduced the ...

The trading proved to be the key to the act's success. In 2001 corporate polluters traded $2 billion in rights for 12 million tons of pollution emissions. Trades are up seventeenfold in six years.

The Bush administration would undo that by placing mercury into a less strict category of the Clean Air Act, which will allow companies to buy and sell pollution rights with other plants.

But it limits the total by issuing (by fiat) maximum greenhouse gas emissions or by auctioning these pollution rights ... For example, the acid rain trading program (a cap-and-trade system ...

Europe’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) is the bloc’s flagship scheme to help curb greenhouse gas emissions. Sign up here. Several other regions across the globe are also using ETSs to meet ...

For community groups to allege violations of environmental rules, a state law says groups have to use federally-approved testing equipment, and it sets restrictions for analyzing and sharing the data.

Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) is all set to start a particulate matter (PM) emission trading system in Ahmedabad by the end of January. GPCB has completed the installation of Continuous ...

For five years the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB), a regulator in the western state of Gujarat, has run an emissions-trading scheme in the city of Surat. The programme is modelled on ...