Obama Administration's Climate Rule Seen Heralding U.S. Greenhouse Gas Markets

摘要

U.S. states from the Pacific Coast to the Midwest may allow companies to trade the right to emit global warming pollution, spurred on by the Obama administration's new climate change rules. Dozens of states, including a group of 13 in the western U.S. and a 15-state group in the Midwest, are discussing markets for emissions linked to climate change, Dirk Forrister, president of the International Emissions Trading Association, said in an interview Sept. 24 at a conference on pollution trading in New York. The rules, designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions, "have really given states a lot of new options to consider," Forrister said. Power-industry executives, regulators and clean-air advocates told the conference the regulations, unveiled last month, will encourage states and regions to form greenhouse gas markets.