Three States Join in Pilot Program to Try Credit Trading System for Water Quality

摘要

A pilot plan for trading credits on water quality was signed Aug. 9 as a strategy to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus pollution in the Ohio River Basin. Federal and state officials joined with representatives of agriculture interests and the electric power industry for a signing ceremony in Cincinnati to promote the voluntary program, an outgrowth of a research project of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).