How to Use cap-and-trade in a Sentence

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• The cap-and-trade spending is definitely a big deal, even as some experts say the numbers are likely a bit exaggerated.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
• Other countries are figuring out how to do it with cap-and-trade.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Feb. 2021
• And the failures of the ETS are not intrinsic to the cap-and-trade concept as such, but arise merely from the procedures adopted to implement the trading system.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Feb. 2013
• The plan has been funded by some prior federal grants, as well as a bond fund approved by voters in 2008, and revenue from the state’s cap-and-trade climate program.
  — Will Weissert, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2023
• The state also has a cap-and-trade program and low-carbon fuel standard that adds roughly another 46 cents a gallon, according to the group.
  — Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
• Failure to achieve that could push prices extraordinarily high under the cap-and-trade system.
  — Breanne Deppisch, Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2023
• Europe also excludes farmers from its emissions trading system, the world’s largest cap-and-trade market.
  — Paulo Trevisani, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
• Carbon capture plays a role in the state’s cap-and-trade program, which sets limits on greenhouse gas emissions and allows companies to buy and sell their unused credits.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
• General fund spending worth $3.4 billion would be shifted to other kitties, such as the cap-and-trade program that pays for climate programs.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• From a carbon tax to cap-and-trade and all measures in between, many ideas have been bandied about, and some countries have recently made huge investments in selecting their preferred routes.
  — Mary Foley, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• The state’s cap-and-trade system is premised on big polluters, including oil and gas drillers, buying up permits that correspond to emissions avoided through the protection of its vast forests.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
• Some politicians who oppose cap-and-trade programs worry that the additional costs on companies will mean higher prices for consumers.
  — Sara Ruberg, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2023
• The trading will use a cap-and-trade system where pollution levels are limited and allowances can be traded by businesses entities.
  — Nancy Vu, Washington Examiner, 23 Aug. 2023
• High-speed rail development relies on state and federal funding and California’s cap-and-trade incentive, which is set to expire in 2030.
  — Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• Compulsory carbon rationing on the model of British wartime rations may be fairer than individual cap-and-trade schemes.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
• The exemption from emissions requirements for Brazil’s agricultural sector removed a major hurdle for cap-and-trade.
  — Paulo Trevisani, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
• Washington’s cap-and-invest program most closely reflects California’s cap-and-trade program, which began in 2013.
  — Sara Ruberg, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2023
• The board is also expected to consider reforms this year to the state’s flagship climate program called cap-and-trade, which is meant to cut carbon emissions by allowing industry such as oil refineries to purchase and trade permits to pollute.
  — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 16 Feb. 2024
• During the cap-and-trade fight in 2009, companies that joined the coalition to pass a carbon-pricing bill—including BP and ConocoPhillips—simultaneously funded the politicians and trade associations working to kill it.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2023
• Brazil’s government has finalized a bill creating a cap-and-trade carbon market expected to help Latin America’s largest economy curb greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Paulo Trevisani, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2023
• For instance, several of China’s provinces have copied California’s cap-and-trade program for industrial emissions.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2023
• These include the state’s cap-and-trade program, special gasoline blends specific to California, summer and winter fuel blend transitions, and the ever-increasing gas tax (expected to increase 8 percent in July).
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
• In a global context, the mechanism is unremarkable, similar to cap-and-trade mechanisms implemented elsewhere.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
• Kyoto’s most important innovation was an international cap-and-trade system for emissions.
  — William Nordhaus, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2020
• The country also followed in California’s footsteps and established a national cap-and-trade program focused on power-generating facilities in 2021.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• Advertisement Additionally, Californians have received credits on utility bills funded by the cap-and-trade program.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024