Proposal by Energy Committee Democrats Would Provide Free Allowances for Utilities

摘要

Electric utilities would be given 40 percent of emissions allowances under a proposal recommended April 23 by a group of Democrats in a bid to get a compromise on climate legislation now before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.rnGiving utilities free allowances would help bridge the gap between proponents of a draft bill written by Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey CD-Mass.) and committee Democrats primarily from coal and manufacturing states who worry the bill's greenhouse gas emissions caps are too stringent.