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Update on cap and trade

McMillan LLP
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Canada, USA
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June 30 2010

On June 15, 2010 Ontario Premier McGuinty and Québec Premier Charest jointly announced that Ontario and Québec are continuing to make preparation for implementation of a cap and trade system to regulate greenhouse gas emissions

Sweet ride, shame about the paint new vehicle emission standards

McMillan LLP
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Canada, USA
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June 30 2010

Canada and the United States seem to have taken a step in the right direction to provide automakers with the impetus to increase efficiencies and innovation to reduce vehicle emissions in a manner that is flexible and harmonized across jurisdictions

U.S. to curtail carbon leakage

McMillan LLP
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Canada, USA
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March 11 2010

In the fall of last year, the U.S. Senate released its version of an energy and climate change bill called the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act

Green fuel or greenwash

McMillan LLP
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Canada, Global, USA
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January 6 2010

On May 20, 2009, Canada, together with the European Union, Brazil and Chile, wrote to the United States Congress urging them to repeal a tax credit for the use of black liquor as a biofuel, on the basis that the credit is acting as a subsidy on the production of kraft pulp contrary to World Trade Organization ("WTO") rules

Staying foreign parallel proceedings just got tougher

McMillan LLP
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Canada, USA
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October 29 2009

You bring an action in the US only to have the defendant commence a parallel proceeding in a Canadian court

Black liquor green fuel or greenwash?

McMillan LLP
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Canada, USA
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August 13 2009

Black liquor is not the product of a pot still in rural Tennessee, but a toxic by-product of the kraft wood pulping process

Canadian implications of the Waxman-Markey Bill

McMillan LLP
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Canada, USA
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May 28 2009

An emissions trading bill currently making its way through a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives includes a number of provisions with potential ramifications for cross-border trade

Western Climate Initiative finalizes cap-and-trade program recommendations

McMillan LLP
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Canada, USA
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October 31 2008

The Western Climate Initiative (the “WCI”) released the Draft Design of the Regional Cap-and-Trade Program (the “Draft Design”) in July 2008 and, in August, we published a bulletin highlighting the key features of the Draft Design

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: first auction to occur September 25

McMillan LLP
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Canada, USA
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September 24 2008

On September 25, 2008, under the auspices of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the first U.S. carbon auction will be held

Emissions trading and climate change bulletin

McMillan LLP
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Canada, USA
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August 11 2008

The Western Climate Initiative (“WCI”) is a multijurisdictional voluntary collaboration launched in February 2007 to develop regional strategies to address climate change

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