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New York Responds to Carbon Cap-and-Trade Lawsuit

| Sourced From The New York Times |

As reported in our previous post, Indeck Energy, owner of a natural gas plant in Corinth, N.Y., has filed a lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a carbon cap-and-trade program established by 10 Northeastern states.

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Posted on January 31, 2009 · in Top Stories

NY-NJ transit agency plans to buy carbon credits

NEW YORK – The agency that owns the New York City region’s airports, bridges and tunnels is gearing up to go green.
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Posted on October 23, 2008 · in Top Stories, USA

21 US Cities to Measure Carbon Footprint

Collaborating with UK-based Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), Las Vegas and New York will be amongst 21 US cities that will have their carbon footprints measured.

“If you don’t measure these emissions, you cannot manage them,” asserted Paul Dickinson of the CDP.

All these cities have decided to separately collect GHG emissions data for their metropolitan departments like police and government buildings to review how they are doing in comparison to other cities. Once the calculations are done, the ground will be ripe for green consultants and carbon traders to jump in and minimize the footprints.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg also voiced his support for this project stating this would help them tackle the issue “with the best data”.

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Posted on August 10, 2008 · in Carbon Market News