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Legal compliance seems the only way to achieve cuts in carbon dioxide emissions. Europe is leading the way, but the US is some way from a similar approach, despite a regional initiative sparking some interest. Joe Marsh reports

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A mandatory CO2 cap-and-trade scheme for power plants in the US by 2006? It hardly seems a likely proposition – the US government is not likely to ratify the Kyoto Protocol any time soon, and in December threw its support behind a proposal for a voluntary framework to reduce emissions from the power sector. But this is what the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI or ‘Reggie’) envisages

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