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Who should get carbon credits, automakers or utilities?

Governments everywhere are trying to use a carrot and stick approach to get reductions in emissions, particularly when it comes to greenhouse gases. The stick is well-known approach: fail to miss the requirements and you pay a fine. For the carrot, things get a bit more complicated. The most popular approach has been to offer credits to those that exceed emissions reduction targets. Those credits can then be sold to other emitters that are failing to hit targets for any number of reasons. However, the question is who should get the credit ... Read more →

Auto Industry is sick and tired of State CO2 regulations

They're launching a counterattack, according to Automotive News (subs req'd). The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (consisting of the Big 2.5, Toyota and five others) submits that California ...

Who should get carbon credits, automakers or utilities? 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

Governments everywhere are trying to use a carrot and stick approach to get reductions in emissions, particularly when it comes to greenhouse gases. The stick is well-known approach: fail to miss the requirements and you pay a fine. For the carrot, things get a bit more complicated. The most ...

Auto Industry is sick and tired of State CO2 regulations 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

They're launching a counterattack, according to Automotive News (subs req'd). The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (consisting of the Big 2.5, Toyota and five others) submits that California regulators and those of the tagalong states have been misleading the public about the benefits of such ...



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