The 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act, which passed with bipartisan support, back when the Koch brothers held less sway over the GOP and pro-environment Republicans could still get elected to Congress, largely solved the problem of acid rain by creating a cap and trade program to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx).
The meeting took place just a few months after the Senate refused to act on a bill passed by the House in 2009 that would have addressed climate change by creating a cap and trade system to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
The trust would establish collective governance of the atmosphere, creating a cap on carbon emissions and renting the emissions rights to industries that want to emit carbon dioxide.
Planting trees in Los Angeles may become an offset for greenhouse gas emissions for LADWP in the future because California is creating a cap and trade program.
Murray testified on several panels convened by the RGGI board to explain how the allowance reserve system makes emissions trading sustainable, efficient, and cost-effective a necost-effective atinecessityand-trade program palatable to industry, environmental advocates, and the general public.
He urged lawmakers to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that cause climate change by creating a cap-and-trade system of limits and pollution allowances.
The executives support a system that would create a cap on emissions, give allocations to companies based on past emissions and allow firms to trade allocations to meet gradually declining emission targets.
Mr. Palladino is now lobbying state legislators in Albany to create a cap on the number of years that officers spend under cover.
Even today, as he led a coalition of New York's counties in lobbying Albany to create a cap on escalating Medicaid costs, Mr. Bloomberg talked of the leaders in the Capitol collectively, rather than shifting pressure solely on Mr. Pataki.
After raising funds through Indiegogo and many cycles of trial and error, Powell placed two pieces of polyurethane together to create a cap that, when placed on the head of the penis, effectively captured semen.
