Comments on: First North American Auction of Carbon Permits Sets Price at $3.07/ton http://ecopolitology.org/2008/10/09/first-north-american-auction-of-carbon-permits-sets-price-at-307ton/ The Politics of Energy and the Environment Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:12:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: Timothy B. Hurst http://ecopolitology.org/2008/10/09/first-north-american-auction-of-carbon-permits-sets-price-at-307ton/comment-page-1/#comment-178 Timothy B. Hurst Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:35:01 +0000 http://ecopolitology.org/?p=280#comment-178 Erin- Right, RGGI only covers power plant emissions. RGGI does nothing to tackle other sources of greenhouse gas causing emissions (i.e tailpipe emissions). I think that was implied by what I wrote but thanks for adding that power plants only make up about 1/3 of total global emissions - a very important point indeed. Erin-

Right, RGGI only covers power plant emissions. RGGI does nothing to tackle other sources of greenhouse gas causing emissions (i.e tailpipe emissions).

I think that was implied by what I wrote but thanks for adding that power plants only make up about 1/3 of total global emissions – a very important point indeed.

]]> By: Erin http://ecopolitology.org/2008/10/09/first-north-american-auction-of-carbon-permits-sets-price-at-307ton/comment-page-1/#comment-177 Erin Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:00:01 +0000 http://ecopolitology.org/?p=280#comment-177 Nice article. You wrote "RGGI (pronounced ‘reggie’) is a regional agreement between ten northeastern states to manage and regulate greenhouse gas emissions with a system that requires fossil-burning utilities to buy permits for the carbon they release into the atmosphere." I thought RGGI only covers power plant emissions... power plant emissions being roughly only a third of global warming emissions generally. If so, seems like an important point to note about the nation's first regional carbon auction. Nice article. You wrote “RGGI (pronounced ‘reggie’) is a regional agreement between ten northeastern states to manage and regulate greenhouse gas emissions with a system that requires fossil-burning utilities to buy permits for the carbon they release into the atmosphere.”

I thought RGGI only covers power plant emissions… power plant emissions being roughly only a third of global warming emissions generally.

If so, seems like an important point to note about the nation’s first regional carbon auction.

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