Cap and trade

“We have a strong environmental message,” Doug Ford told reporters at a tightly-scripted news conference in Ottawa. “People want clean lakes, they want clean rivers, they want clean air and we’re going to make sure that we deliver that.”

Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford’s campaign trail promise to withdraw Ontario from the cap and trade market it shares with Quebec and California would likely cost the province between $2 billion and $4 billion, a leading environmental lawyer warns.

If Ontario PC leader Doug Ford wins the election and sues the federal government to prevent carbon pricing, he would likely lose, say constitutional and environmental law experts.

The president of an Ontario metal fabrication plant who has saved millions of dollars, cut carbon pollution and hired more staff, says he's not sure if politicians who criticize environmental standards are "educated on these things, (or) if they’re just trying to win voters."

If elected premier of Ontario, new Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford says he will get rid of the carbon cap-and-trade system and make sure millions of dollars stay in the province rather than heading for California or Quebec.

When asked about Kinder Morgan’s plans to proceed with its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, linking Alberta’s oilsands producers to the west coast, Gov. Jay Inslee says he’s very worried about expanding fossil fuel infrastructure and the impacts on his own state, including impacts on endangered orca whales.

Nova Scotia's proposed cap and trade regime must have declining emissions caps in order to be effective, the legislature's law amendments committee was told on Mon. Oct. 16, 2017.

Nova Scotia tabled legislation Friday that sets the stage for its promised cap and trade regime.

The sell-out is the second such auction in a row for the market, which Ontario plans to join next year.

A 99-year old Quebec food company throws away 16 tons of unsold fruits and vegetables every day. Now it plans to use its waste to make juice and save money.

Gov. Jerry Brown is set to sign legislation on Tuesday, July 25, keeping alive California's signature initiative to fight global warming, which puts a cap and a price on climate-changing emissions.

Gov. Jerry Brown warned on Thursday of a California ravaged by forest fires, disease and mass migration if lawmakers fail to renew the state's signature program to fight climate change.

With a bill now in print, lawmakers could vote on the deal as early as Thursday. The cap−and−trade reauthorization needs support from two−thirds of lawmakers to pass.

If passed by California legislators, the new system would begin in January 2021, but there is no guarantee it will be adopted.

Ontario's first cap-and-trade auction sold out all current allowances, giving the new market a strong start, but the province's environment minister warned the real test of the system is coming.