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Allowance Trading
EPA’s Clean Air Markets Programs use a market-based regulatory program called Cap and Trade to reduce emissions. This type of approach is one of several different market-based mechanisms that use a variety of economic incentives and disincentives, such as tax credits, emissions fees, and emissions trading.
This section of the site focuses on:
- Allowance trading basics and concepts
- How to buy allowances
- Information on how EPA tracks allowances
- Allowance allocations to emission sources
- EPA’s annual allowance auction
- Allowance data for all Clean Air Markets programs