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Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (Maine Revised Statutes: Title 38 - Waters and Navigation; Chapter 3-B)

País/Territorio
Estados Unidos de América
Subdivisión territorial
Maine
Tipo de documento
Legislación
Fecha
2018
Fuente
FAO, FAOLEX
Materia
Medio ambiente gen.
Palabra clave
Emisiones Gobierno local Comercio de emisiones Cambio climático
Área geográphica
Americas, Ártico, Pacífico Oriental, América del Norte, Atlántico Norte
Resumen

This chapter of the Maine Revised Statutes concerns the regional greenhouse gas initiative. It establishes a carbon dioxide cap-and-trade program. It provides that all carbon dioxide budget units are subject to the carbon dioxide cap-and-trade program, except that a carbon dioxide budget unit is exempt from the program. The carbon dioxide cap-and-trade program commences no earlier than January 1, 2009 and only when other states that are participating in the regional greenhouse gas initiative that produce a minimum of 35,000,000 tons of annual carbon dioxide emissions budget and participate in a wholesale electricity market administered and overseen by the regional transmission organization have initiated a comparable carbon dioxide cap-and-trade program.

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legislature.maine.gov