By Christopher Maidment
It is illegal for New Hampshire to join the Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI) cap-and-trade program without legislative approval. .
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It is illegal for New Hampshire to join the Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI) cap-and-trade program without legislative approval. Gov. Sununu has already pledged to keep the state out of it, and the higher gas prices that would follow.
So why did the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) just spend more than $47,000 studying it?
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Northeastern states like Massachusetts, New York and Vermont have been pushing the TCI s regional regulatory approach, similar to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. In the face of these pressures, the NH legislature passed a 2012 law ensuring that New Hampshire shall not join, implement, or participate in any state, regional, or national low carbon fuel standards program or any similar program that requires quotas, caps, or mandates on any fu