cap and trade

Nov 4, 2021
How does a cap and trade system for carbon emissions work?
Kevin Frayer via Getty Images
It’s a market-focused alternative to carbon taxes.
Download
May 25, 2021
Cap and confiscate: Now anyone can buy and lock up pollution permits
Jeff Swensen/Getty Images
A “vault” for carbon-emissions permits could also create incentives to drive innovation in the battle against climate change.
Download
Oct 23, 2019
The Trump administration wants to end California’s cap-and-trade program
David McNew/Getty Images
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: the Trump administration is picking a legal fight with California.
Jul 12, 2019
It’s getting more expensive to emit carbon pollution in Europe
Lukas Schulze/Getty Images
In Europe’s cap-and-trade market to limit emissions of carbon dioxide, the price of an allowance to pollute has increased to an 11-year high.
Apr 20, 2017
Could California’s cap-and-trade system control other pollution, too?
Even as the White House rolls back national climate change programs, California is moving forward on a cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Yet the Golden State still has some of the highest air pollution in the nation from other pollutants its industrial plants spew. A new bill would use California’s cap-and-trade rules to […]
Dec 30, 2016
A new emissions cap-and-trade program starts up in Canada
Ontario’s program will connect with California’s and Quebec’s, adding momentum to efforts to combat global warming.
Oct 4, 2016
Canada will have a carbon price. Will the US?
MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images
The policy will have to balance pushing climate goals with not getting too far ahead.
Jul 19, 2016
To cut emissions, Canada could expand carbon pricing
MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images
If Canada rolls out carbon pricing nationally, how will it affect the US?
Dec 9, 2015
Whatever happened to "Cap and Trade"?
The big idea of companies trading rights to emit greenhouse gases has floundered in Europe.
Sep 25, 2015
China has a cap-and-trade model: the U.S.
The system reduced American utilities' sulphur emissions by 70 percent.