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Standards & Compliance Briefing: LEED 2012 Postponed, RGGI, WindMade, 2012 IECC, ISO 14001

June 5, 2012June 30, 2013 by Leon Walker

USGBC announced that it will delay ballot on its rating system LEED 2012 until June 1, 2013, and run a fifth public comment period from October 2 until December 10, 2012. As a result , the council has renamed LEED 2012 to LEED v4. LEED 2009 also will remain available for ... Read more »

Policy & Regulatory Briefing: EPA and Interior Budgets, Capture Incentives, RGGI

July 25, 2011 by Environmental Leader

The House will debate this week the EPA and Department of Interior fiscal 2012 spending bill, the Hill said. The proposal would give the EPA $7.1 billion and the Interior $9.86 billion. Among its restrictions, the EPA spending bill would delay agency greenhouse gas emission regulations for power plants and ... Read more »

Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Ethanol Deal, Light Bulbs, Mont. Pulls Out of Spill Clean-Up

July 8, 2011June 4, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

Senators yesterday announced a compromise proposal to end a major tax break for the ethanol industry while extending incentives for production of cellulosic ethanol, for ethanol blender pumps at gas stations, and for small ethanol producers, the Hill reports. At a House subcommittee hearing, witness criticized the scientific and technical evaluations ... Read more »

Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Tea Party RGGI Suit, E15, Stimulus Project Audit

June 29, 2011June 4, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

Investigators at the Treasury Department are auditing 14 of the 2,600 wind and solar projects that received incentive funds under the 2009 stimulus bill, Bloomberg reports. The audits will aim to determine whether the department “established (and followed) appropriate procedures for awarding the grants,” and whether developers met eligibility requirements, ... Read more »

Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Mercury, Renewable Fuels, MACT Boiler Rules

June 22, 2011June 4, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

The EPA is making yet another extension to a public comment period, this time on proposed mercury and air toxics standards for coal plants. But the agency said the 30 day extension to the timeline for public input will not delay the issuing of final standards, scheduled for November. Last month ... Read more »

Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Kyoto, Pfizer, BPA, RGGI

June 10, 2011June 4, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has asked the Environmental Protection Agency to suspend plans to place Bisphenol A (BPA) on a list of substances that may harm the environment, the Detroit Free Press reports. The EPA said last year that it would study the effects of BPA and consider putting ... Read more »

General Dynamics’ Power Contracts to Save $150,000

June 2, 2011June 2, 2011 by Leon Walker

General Dynamics has negotiated purchasing contracts for green power that it says will save the company more than $150,000 a year. World Energy Solutions helped General Dynamics to procure 50 percent renewable power for the company’s Land Systems division headquarters, and 25 percent renewable power for its Scranton, Penn., facility. ... Read more »

New Jersey Quits RGGI, Bans Coal Plants

May 27, 2011May 31, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

New Jersey governor Chris Christie has pulled the state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the only mandatory cap-and-trade program in the U.S., while promising to ban new coal-fired plants in the state. Branding the RGGI a failure, Christie told a press conference yesterday that the state will withdraw ... Read more »

Policy Briefing: RGGI, Plastic Bag Ban, Oil Leases

May 9, 2011June 4, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

New Hampshire’s Senate will this Wednesday consider a bill to withdraw the state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the cap-and-trade program covering ten north-eastern states. The state’s House approved the measure 251-108. The New Hampshire Union Leader reported that the Senate does not appear, however, to have the 16 votes ... Read more »

RGGI Prices Remain Flat, All Allowances Sell

March 11, 2011 by Paul Nastu

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative held auction 11 on March 9th. It yielded $83,425,588. All of the of the 41,995,813 current control period CO2 allowances (2009-2011) offered in the auction sold at a price of $1.89 per allowance. This is up from the low of $1.86 seen in the last ... Read more »

RGGI CO2 Allowance Auction Price Sinks to Lowest Level

September 10, 2010October 18, 2016 by Gina Roos

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) has announced the results (PDF) of its ninth auction of carbon dioxide allowances since it’s launch in 2008. The auction, held Wednesday, September 8, hit its lowest allowed level for allowance prices for the two-year old program, selling at $1.86 a ton, which indicates an ... Read more »

RGGI Auction Volume Up 42%

March 12, 2010 by Paul Nastu

Trading of carbon permits under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative rose 42 percent in the most recent trading session. More than 40.612 million allowances were auctioned March 10, up from 28.591 million allowances sold Dec. 2. This, the seventh such auction, brought a price of $2.07 for permits and $1.86 ... Read more »

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