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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Funding the high-speed rail project On the final day of sessions, legislators agreed to allocate $1 billion each year from the state’s cap-and-trade program to fund the high-speed rail project.
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Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 16 Sep. 2025
The Legislature did extend the state’s cap-and-trade greenhouse gas auction system, which generates money that is used to fund affordable housing, along with other programs.
—Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2025
California's high-speed rail project has won a financial lifeline, with the state committing $1 billion annually from cap-and-trade revenues through 2045.
—Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
But with ridership still far lower than pre-pandemic levels, Bay Area transit agencies want to use cap-and-trade dollars to pay for more of their operating funds, too.
—Kate Talerico, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
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Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 16 Sep. 2025
The Legislature did extend the state’s cap-and-trade greenhouse gas auction system, which generates money that is used to fund affordable housing, along with other programs.
—Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2025
California's high-speed rail project has won a financial lifeline, with the state committing $1 billion annually from cap-and-trade revenues through 2045.
—Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
But with ridership still far lower than pre-pandemic levels, Bay Area transit agencies want to use cap-and-trade dollars to pay for more of their operating funds, too.
—Kate Talerico, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Cap-and-trade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cap-and-trade. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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