cap-and-trade
adjective
: relating to or being a system that caps the amount of carbon emissions a given company may produce but allows it to buy rights to produce additional emissions from a company that does not use the equivalent amount of its own allowance
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California’s relatively high energy prices are driven, in part, by progressive policy preferences, such as the imposition of the nation’s first cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions.
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Patrick Gleason, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
When asked for comment, Newsom’s office signaled that any new rebates would be tied to the governor’s push to reauthorize cap-and-trade, the program that sells emissions credits and reinvests the funds in climate projects.
—David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2025
Behind him was former Representative John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, who ran out the clock by speaking for just under two hours in June 2009 in opposition to the cap-and-trade American Clean Energy and Security Act.
—Kate Plummer
jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 July 2025
The rail project currently receives 25% of the cap-and-trade proceeds, which is roughly $1 billion annually depending on the year.
—Trân Nguyễn, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
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Patrick Gleason, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
When asked for comment, Newsom’s office signaled that any new rebates would be tied to the governor’s push to reauthorize cap-and-trade, the program that sells emissions credits and reinvests the funds in climate projects.
—David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2025
Behind him was former Representative John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, who ran out the clock by speaking for just under two hours in June 2009 in opposition to the cap-and-trade American Clean Energy and Security Act.
—Kate Plummer
jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 July 2025
The rail project currently receives 25% of the cap-and-trade proceeds, which is roughly $1 billion annually depending on the year.
—Trân Nguyễn, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
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