How to Use cap-and-trade in a Sentence

cap-and-trade

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• The bill allocates cap-and-trade funds.
  — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 18 Sep. 2025
• This is where carbon pricing, whether as a carbon tax or as cap-and-trade, comes in.
  — Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
• Other countries are figuring out how to do it with cap-and-trade.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Feb. 2021
• His plan is light on specifics but includes defending the state’s cap-and-trade program.
  — Sophie Austin, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
• The credit is funded by the state’s cap-and-trade program, which attempts to reduce harmful emissions.
  — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
• Failure to achieve that could push prices extraordinarily high under the cap-and-trade system.
  — Breanne Deppisch, Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2023
• While cap-and-trade could be the funding source for an EV subsidy, money for the program could be limited.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2025
• Europe also excludes farmers from its emissions trading system, the world’s largest cap-and-trade market.
  — Paulo Trevisani, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
• Roughly half of the money has been given to utilities to minimize cap-and-trade’s impact on consumer costs.
  — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 15 May 2026
• Many governments already are pricing carbon, either with cap-and-trade, or carbon fee and dividend laws.
  — Carl Yaeckel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2025
• The budget agreement does not reauthorize the cap-and-trade program and leaves many of those questions unanswered for later in the session or next year.
  — Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 27 June 2025
• In recent years, cap-and-trade has brought in some $4 billion annually to the state, but it is set to end in 2030.
  — Kate Talerico, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
• The changes called for by cap-and-trade would have been mandatory, unlike those created by the renewable gas legislation.
  — Mckenzie Funk, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2024
• The cap-and-trade program was passed in 2006 and sets an overall limit on carbon emissions for major polluters.
  — Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• The cap-and-trade spending is definitely a big deal, even as some experts say the numbers are likely a bit exaggerated.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
• The funds will come from the state’s convoluted cap-and-trade program, which makes emitters of greenhouse gases buy pollution credits.
  — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• Many people and agencies compete for those cap-and-trade dollars, and the program itself is set to expire in 2030.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 July 2025
• The money comes from revenues generated by the state’s cap-and-trade program and an air pollution regulation fund.
  — Linh Tat, Daily News, 9 Jan. 2026
• Some politicians who oppose cap-and-trade programs worry that the additional costs on companies will mean higher prices for consumers.
  — Sara Ruberg, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2023
• Republicans voiced concerns that prices will continue to go up next year under changes to the cap-and-trade program and the state’s low carbon fuel standard.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024
• Carbon capture plays a role in the state’s cap-and-trade program, which sets limits on greenhouse gas emissions and allows companies to buy and sell their unused credits.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
• That thinking was a key part in developing the country’s cap-and-trade system, which was enacted last year and is in the process of being implemented.
  — Justin Worland, Time, 23 May 2025
• But both federal and private sector money are now nowhere to be seen, and cap-and-trade revenue is inherently speculative.
  — Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026
• California’s cap-and-trade program places a price on greenhouse gas emissions that the oil and gas industry incur, and these costs are passed onto the consumers at the gas pump.
  — Austin Gae, Oc Register, 3 Dec. 2025
• Among other things, the report confirms that California motorists are already paying quite a bit more for fuel because of cap-and-trade.
  — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 11 May 2025
• In California, the efforts are funded primarily by proceeds from its cap-and-trade program.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
• The trading will use a cap-and-trade system where pollution levels are limited and allowances can be traded by businesses entities.
  — Nancy Vu, Washington Examiner, 23 Aug. 2023
• From a carbon tax to cap-and-trade and all measures in between, many ideas have been bandied about, and some countries have recently made huge investments in selecting their preferred routes.
  — Mary Foley, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• The state also has a cap-and-trade program and low-carbon fuel standard that adds roughly another 46 cents a gallon, according to the group.
  — Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
• The satellites will be funded using $100 million from the state’s cap-and-trade program, according to Newsom.
  — Lia Russell, Sacramento Bee, 21 Mar. 2025