As Congress considers the nation's first cap-and-trade legislation, California regulators are thinking about imposing the nation's first fee on carbon dioxide emitters as a means of funding the state's greenhouse gas emissions law, according to this article in the Mercury News. If adopted, it would raise approximately $50 million annually to fund the regulatory program.
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