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The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI, pronounced "Reggie") is the first mandatory market-based program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the United States.RGGI is a cooperative effort among the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia to cap and reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions ...
The Virginia Register on Monday published the final regulatory action to remove Virginia from Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative at the end of year — but the Southern Environmental Law Center ...
The Southern Environmental Law Center filed the long-promised lawsuit in Fairfax County Circuit Court to try to keep Virginia in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, also known as RGGI, which ...
Market-Based Mechanisms: The U.S. has been a leader in market-based mechanisms like cap-and-trade systems, with regional initiatives such as California's cap-and-trade program and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) demonstrating the effectiveness of market incentives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. [6]
Southwest Climate Change Initiative 2008 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island, and Virginia with other eastern states and Canadian provinces as observers Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: 2009
The cap-and-trade initiative would have seenNorth Carolina join 11 other states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, whose members limit carbon dioxide emissions from electrical generation ...
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), founded in 2007, is a state-level emissions capping and trading program by nine northeastern U.S. states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia. It is a cap and trade program in which states "sell nearly all emission ...
In 2003, New York State proposed and attained commitments from nine Northeast states to form a cap and trade carbon dioxide emissions program for power generators, called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). This program launched on January 1, 2009, with the aim to reduce the carbon "budget" of each state's electricity generation ...