Curtain rises on California’s planned carbon market

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Curtain rises on California’s planned carbon market

Every year at the Pacific Coast Producers (PCP) processing plant in Woodland, Calif., half a million tons of tomatoes are sliced, diced, canned, boiled, and shipped to grocery stores nationwide. The operation is driven by steam, lots of it, which comes from a suite of massive natural-gas-powered boilers. Together, these boilers emit over 25,000 metric tonnes (about 27,557 U.S. tons) of greenhouse gases annually, which means PCP will be forced to join California’s cap-and-trade carbon market, set to kick off in November. The plan , which officials hope will put the country’s most populous state on track to cut greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050, isn’t the first carbon trading scheme in the U.S.: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a collective of several northeastern states (including Massachusetts, which rejoined a few years after being forced out by th...

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