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CARB to vote on linking with Ontario emissions trading system

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada, USA
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  • June 17 2012

The California Air Resources Board announced June 11 that with recent changes to both, Quebec’s greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program is in sync with California's trading program

RGGI compliance

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada, USA
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  • June 10 2012

A June 4 report released by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative says that of the 211 power plants subject to RGGI’s requirements, only five were not in compliance as a result of their failure to have allowances for all of their carbon dioxide emissions

Ontario requires U.S. pollution reduction

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • May 6 2012

Ontario submitted a friend of the court brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit May 1, contending that areas of the province near the U.S. border cannot meet their ozone air quality standard because of power plant pollution that crosses into Canada

NA Leaders’ Summit

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada, Mexico, USA
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  • April 8 2012

President Obama hosted Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderone April 2 for the North American Leaders’ Summit

NA mercury down

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • March 18 2012

In an update of the Montreal-based trinational agency’s Tacking Stock online pollutant database, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation said March 15 that mercury emissions from the North American electricity sector fell 26 percent between 2006 and 2009

US and Canada behind on enviro taxes

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Canada, Global, USA
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  • March 18 2012

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said March 15 that the United States and Canada lag behind many other counties in their use of environmental taxes to reduce pollution while raising government revenues

EU fails to label Canadian crude

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada, USA
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  • February 26 2012

A European Commission committee failed February 23 to approve a proposal to label crude oil from Canada’s oil sands as 22.3 percent more polluting than conventional crude

WCI offsets review and approval

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada, USA
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  • February 26 2012

The Western Climate Initiative released final recommendations February 22 for the review and approval of greenhouse gas emissions offset projects under a regional emissions trading program involving California and four Canadian provinces

RGGI to expire unsold allowances

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada, USA
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  • January 29 2012

On January 17, in announcing its March 14 auction, seven of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative’s nine states said they will retire 87 million carbon dioxide emissions allowances that went unsold during the past six auctions

Canadian mobile emissions

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • November 20 2011

Environment Canada announced November 16 that it is seeking comments to guide the development of regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light-duty trucks in the 2017 model year and beyond as part of an ongoing effort with the United States to establish shared vehicle emissions standards