At the end of its legislative session, the California legislature passed AB 1207 and SB 840 to extend and introduce new measures for California’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions Cap-and-Trade program,

California lawmakers are rushing to extend the state’s landmark cap-and-trade climate program through 2045 amid opposition from unions and industry. Why now: There's a Wednesday deadline to introduce legislation, and lobbying and negotiations are ramping up.

As California legislators look to extend a program that requires emitters of greenhouse gases to pay the state, the details will matter. As California legislators look to extend a program that requires emitters of greenhouse gases to pay the state, the ...

California is nothing if not innovative. The state government found a way to pull $28 billion out of greenhouse gases and deposit all of it into a slush fund. More specifically, the money was pulled out of utilities, oil companies, manufacturers and other ...

California lawmakers are negotiating a deal to renew cap-and-trade — the state’s signature carbon-trading program — nearly a year after legislative leaders originally said they plan to extend the carbon market. That delay in renewing the program ...

Washington Department of Ecology director Laura Watson said Thursday that merging with California’s cap-and-trade auctions should ease inflation driven by Washington’s stand-alone program. Watson announced Ecology will pursue participating in cap-and ...

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The Washington Farm Bureau estimates farmers have paid at least $153 million and likely far more this year in cap-and-trade fees, even though lawmakers intended to exempt agriculture from the tax on fossil fuels. Farm Bureau director of governmental ...