cap-and-trade
adjective
: relating to or being a system that caps the amount of carbon emissions a given company may produce but allows it to buy rights to produce additional emissions from a company that does not use the equivalent amount of its own allowance
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The governor has not quantified the amount of funding the state would make available for rebates and said the money would come from the cap-and-trade program, the state’s market for pollution credits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
California provided up to $7,500 for the purchase or lease of a new plug-in hybrid, battery or fuel cell EV and could potentially be paid for by the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund which is funded by polluters under the state's cap-and-trade program.
—David Shepardson and Akash Sriram, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024
The funding for the new rebates could come from California's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a revenue stream supported by the state's cap-and-trade system.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
The governor proposed funding the new rebates from the state’s cap-and-trade program, which industrial polluters are required to pay into under state law.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN, 25 Nov. 2024
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Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
California provided up to $7,500 for the purchase or lease of a new plug-in hybrid, battery or fuel cell EV and could potentially be paid for by the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund which is funded by polluters under the state's cap-and-trade program.
—David Shepardson and Akash Sriram, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024
The funding for the new rebates could come from California's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a revenue stream supported by the state's cap-and-trade system.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
The governor proposed funding the new rebates from the state’s cap-and-trade program, which industrial polluters are required to pay into under state law.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN, 25 Nov. 2024
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