EFFORT TO CONTROL EMISSION REDUCTION CREDIT USE SEEN CONTINUING

Legislative efforts to place controls on future emission reduction credit (ERC) trading programs across the state are still expected to be pursued, despite the failure of a key bill to pass the Assembly last week, according to sources. There is still enough concern about protecting heavily industrialized communities to devise a strategy to limit trading benefiting stationary source facilities through the generation and sale of mobile source ERCs, these sources claim. ERC trading programs are considered by most air officials...