NEW STUDY PROVIDES ROADMAP ON CREDITING EFFICIENCY IN TRADING PLANS

An energy efficiency group is developing a roadmap on ways to credit energy-saving measures toward pollution reduction goals in emissions trading programs, which could play a role in increasingly high-profile state and federal discussions on addressing rising natural gas prices, along with air pollution and climate change, according to industry and environmental groups. Development of the analysis comes as industrial electricity users squeezed by high natural gas prices are calling for federal legislation and rules to boost natural gas supplies...