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Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (Rev #1)

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The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, abbreviated RGGI or ReGGIe, is an initiative by states and provinces in the Northeastern United States region to reduce greenhouse gas emissions:

• Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, homepage.

The RGGI has a carbon trading program that covers emissions from power plants, and they are already doing auctions.

There are two categories of members: participants (shown in dark gray above), and observers. The participants are:

• ten states of the U.S.: New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and all the New England states, namely Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

The observers are:

• The U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Ontario, and Québec.

Pennsylvania is a large producer of coal. Ontario and Québec are members of the Western Climate Initiative.

References

• Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Wikipedia.