ON EVE OF PROPOSAL, NORTHEAST EMISSIONS PLAN STILL FACES QUESTIONS

The Northeast Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) has issued a straw proposal of its long-awaited plan to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power generators in the region, but sources familiar with the nation's first broad-based, mandatory CO2-reduction cap caution that an agreement is far from sealed as a slew of questions remain on a number of critical details. The plan -- which would cut CO2 emissions in the nine participating states by 10 percent in 2020 and which was...