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EPA Rule * USA - Would Track Emissions as First Step to Cap-and-Trade
Washington,DC,USA -Transport Topics, by Eric Miller -March 16, 2009: -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week took the first step toward creating a national cap-and-trade system, proposing a new rule that would establish a federal system for reporting carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases produced by large stationary and mobile sources... The new reporting requirements would apply to suppliers of fossil fuel and industrial chemicals, manufacturers of motor vehicles and engines, large direct emitters of greenhouse gases with emissions equal to or more than a threshold of 25,000 metric tons per year. EPA said the large majority of small businesses would not be required to report their emissions... Because many trucking fleets enrolled in EPA’s SmartWay program already voluntarily report some of their emissions data, the EPA said fleets would not be yet required to enter data into the proposed national emissions registry... (Video from You Tube, by CanadaTruckingJobs "Driving a Big Rig through Detroit")
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