Legislators are discussing a carbon emissions cap-and-trade program to partially fund the Oregon Department of Transportation and major highway and bridge projects, according to a May 22 memo.

How to spend the $30 billion California’s pollution-fighting fees generate annually rankles Legislature in final weeks of ...

They said the cap-and-trade system would encourage major polluters to reduce emissions and suggested that the profits could be used to fund Oregon’s struggling transportation network and ...

Both Washington and California have cap-and-trade programs, and early talks in Oregon have involved adopting a law similar to Washington’s, according to one person involved in discussions.

California may have lost up to $3 billion in potential revenue from a signature emissions reduction program over the past year, a new report has found. The Golden State’s cap-and-trade program ...

California cap-and-trade negotiator sets broad scope for reauthorization By Blanca Begert | 04/24/2025 06:23 AM EDT Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin said lawmakers will take a broader look at the state ...

One of Barack Obama's promises during the 2008 campaign was on "cap and trade," the system for regulating pollution that environmentalists adored.

Without Cap-and-Trade funding, there is no backup plan. Without the Cap-and-Trade system and the investments it generates, there’s no path to meaningful improvement in the San Joaquin Valley.

Republican lawmakers walked out in strong protest of cap-and-trade bills in both 2019 and 2020, effectively killing those efforts and prompting then-Gov. Kate Brown to issue an executive order ...

It’s time to face the facts: California’s cap-and-trade system can’t achieve the state’s goals. When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger authorized the system to cap carbon emissions in 2006, he ...