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State and Local Net Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Programs

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  • Advanced Travel Center Electrification
    The Advanced Travel Center Electrification (ATE) program provides energy-efficient heating, ventilation, and cooling systems (HVAC) for use by truckers at travel centers and other areas where drivers stop and idle their vehicles. The ATE systems reduce idling, fuel consumption, and associated emissions.

    Program Type: Transportation
    States: Arkansas, Georgia, New York, Tennessee

  • Animal and Poultry Waste Management
    The North Carolina Animal and Poultry Waste Management Program seeks to identify technologies that reduce and redirect methane emissions from North Carolina farms. A second objective of the program is to reduce animal waste discharges into surface waters.

    Program Types: Agriculture, Energy Supply
    State: North Carolina

  • Building Energy Conservation Initiative
    The Building Energy Conservation Initiative offers energy efficiency analysis, improvement, and financing opportunities to manage energy and reduce waste and emissions.

    Program Type: Energy Efficiency
    State: New Hampshire

  • Building Energy Management Program
    Iowa's Building Energy Management (BEM) Program enables Iowa schools, local governments, and hospitals to identify and implement cost-effective energy management programs without incurring up-front costs.

    Program Type: Energy Efficiency
    State: Iowa

  • California PUC Carbon Adder
    "Carbon adders" are a means of accounting for possible future costs of mitigating GHG emissions.

    Program Types: Agriculture, Energy Supply
    State: California

  • Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture
    Nebraska has created a Carbon Sequestration Advisory Committee to investigate the possibility of sequestering carbon in the state through modified agricultural methods.

    Program Types: Agriculture, Sequestration and Offsets
    State: Nebraska

  • Chariton Valley Biomass Project
    In 1995, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved the use of 4,000 acres of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) land for switchgrass production to help fuel a coal-fired power plant by co-firing biomass with coal. A permanent system capable of processing and burning switchgrass at 12.5 tons per hour is planned, along with a 2,000-ton continuous co-firing test.

    Program Types: Agriculture, Energy Supply
    State: Iowa

  • Clean Air Campaign
    The Clean Air Campaign is a nonprofit organization that works with employers to promote and implement alternative commuting programs for their employees.

    Program Type: Transportation
    State: Georgia

  • Clean Energy Incentive Act
    The Maryland Clean Energy Incentive Act (CEIA) offers tax incentives on energy-efficient and renewable energy products and services to Maryland residents and businesses.

    Program Types: Energy Efficiency, Energy Supply
    State: Maryland

  • Clean-Fueled Bus Program
    The Clean-Fueled Bus Program provides funding for the incremental cost of a clean-fueled bus over a diesel bus to transit authorities, state agencies, universities, municipalities, and school bus fleets.

    Program Type: Transportation
    State: New York

  • Colorado Carbon Adder
    "Carbon adders" are a means of accounting for possible future costs of mitigating GHG emissions.

    Program Type: Energy Supply
    State: Colorado

  • Commute Trip Reduction
    The Washington Commute Trip Reduction program increases the capacity of the transportation system while reducing transportation-related energy use and pollution production.

    Program Type: Transportation
    State: Washington

  • Dairy Waste to Energy
    This project encourages "green power" generation from dairy waste on Oregon's farms, reducing methane emissions and producing electricity for participating farms.

    Program Types: Agriculture, Energy Supply
    State: Oregon

  • Energy $aving Partner
    The Energy Partner program provides cost-effective energy conservation services to low-income households.

    Program Type: Energy Efficiency
    State: Colorado

  • Energy Performance Contracting Program
    Performance contracting is an agreement between a building owner or facilities manager and a private energy services company (ESCO) that uses future energy savings to cover the cost of a building's energy efficiency retrofits.

    Program Type: Energy Efficiency
    State: Hawaii

  • Energy Program for National Parks
    Utah's Department of Natural Resources' Office of Energy and Resource Planning partnered with the National Park Service (NPS) to finance and install renewable energy (solar) and energy-efficient technologies in parks and monuments in Utah.

    Program Types: Energy Efficiency, Energy Supply
    State: Utah

  • Energy Revolving Loan Fund
    The Energy Revolving Loan Fund provides public schools and local governments with technology and financial assistance to implement energy efficiency upgrades.

    Program Type: Energy Efficiency
    State: Missouri

  • Energy Star® Buildings
    The State of Wisconsin is partnering with the federal Energy Star® program to implement energy efficiency measures in both existing and new state buildings. The goal is whole-building savings of energy, water, and emissions.

    Program Types: Buildings, Energy Efficiency
    State: Wisconsin

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  • Forest Re-Leaf
    The New Mexico Forest Re-Leaf program provides grants to public entities such as schools, cities, counties, and rural communities for the purpose of planting trees.

    Program Types: Forestry, Sequestration and Offsets
    State: New Mexico

  • Forest Resource Trust
    Oregon's Forest Resource Trust program helps landowners establish and manage healthy forests through private agreements with the state.

    Program Types: Forestry, Sequestration and Offsets
    State: Oregon

  • Global Warming Basics Introduction
    The scientific community has reached a strong consensus regarding the science of global climate change. The world is undoubtedly warming. The objective of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change is to educate key policy makers and the public about the causes and potential consequences of climate change and to assist the domestic and international communities in developing practical and effective solutions to this important environmental challenge.

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  • Green Pricing: Electric Consumer Choice
    Pennsylvania residents and businesses now have the option to choose their electricity providers and may elect to buy power generated from a mixture of sources that include a high percentage of renewable energy. This option was created in the process of the state's restructuring of the electric utility industry.

    Program Type: Energy Supply
    State: Pennsylvania

  • Greenhouse Gas Reduction Target
    New Jersey has established a goal to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 3.5 percent from 1990 levels by 2005. The state draws upon voluntary agreements with public- and private-sector organizations as well as regulatory initiatives in order to reduce emissions.

    Program Type: Comprehensive
    State: New Jersey

  • Greenhouse Gas Reduction Target
    Maine has passed a law that sets a statewide target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

    Program Type: Comprehensive
    State: Maine

  • Greenhouse Gas Standards for Vehicles
    California has passed legislation requiring the state's Air Resources Board to set greenhouse gas emission standards for new passenger cars and light-duty trucks, to be applied to model years 2009 and later.

    Program Type: Transportation
    State: California

  • Industrial Energy Efficiency Fund
    The Industrial Energy Efficiency Fund (IEEF) works directly with Indiana manufacturers to increase the energy efficiency of their manufacturing processes. The fund provides zero-interest loans for replacement or conversion of existing equipment, for purchase of new equipment as part of a process or plant expansion.

    Program Types: Energy Efficiency, Industry
    State: Indiana

  • Keep Cool Air Conditioner Bounty Program
    The Keep Cool Air Conditioner Bounty Program reduces peak demand for electricity by encouraging customers to purchase Energy Star®-certified air conditioners and to recycle old units. Energy Star® air conditioners meet the highest standards for energy efficiency as approved by the Energy Star® program, a joint venture of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy.

    Program Type: Energy Efficiency
    State: New York

  • Loan STAR Program
    The Texas Loan STAR (Loans to Save Taxes and Resources) Program provides energy efficiency project financing for state agencies, institutions of higher education, school districts, and local governments.

    Program Type: Energy Efficiency
    State: Texas

  • Multiple Pollutant Reduction Program
    New Hampshire has passed a law that sets a limit on emissions from power plants of emissions of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and mercury. It requires that carbon dioxide emissions be reduced to 1990 levels by the end of 2006.

    Program Type: Energy Supply
    State: New Hampshire

  • National Industrial Competitiveness Through Energy, Environment, and Economics
    The National Industrial Competitiveness Through Energy, Environment, and Economics Program (NICE3) is an industrial efficiency program initiated by the federal government in 1991. Indiana has adopted this program through a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and works closely with the federal government on implementation.

    Program Types: Energy Efficiency, Industry
    State: Indiana

  • No-Tillage Assistance Program
    The Georgia No-Tillage Assistance Program leases "no-till" equipment to farmers, reducing fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions, and sequestering carbon dioxide as soil carbon.

    Program Type: Agriculture
    State: Georgia

  • Ohio Coal Development Office
    The Ohio Coal Development Office (OCDO) is an office of the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority undertaking a series of research programs and pilot projects investigating the feasibility of reducing GHG emissions from coal power plants.

    Program Types: Energy Supply, Sequestration and Offsets
    State: Ohio

  • Oregon Carbon Adder
    "Carbon adders" are a means of accounting for possible future costs of mitigating GHG emissions.

    Program Type: Energy Supply
    States: Idaho, Oregon

  • Oxygenated Fuel Standard
    Minnesota requires that almost all fuel sold in the state contain 2.7 percent oxygen by weight, and gasoline makers in the state have chosen to use ethanol to meet this requirement.

    Program Type: Transportation
    State: Minnesota

  • Pattonville High School Landfill Gas Recovery Project
    Pattonville High School in Maryland Heights, Missouri, recovers methane gas from a neighboring sanitary landfill and uses the gas to fuel the school's boilers.

    Program Types: Energy Supply, Waste Management
    State: Missouri

  • Power Plant CO2 Offset Program
    The Climate Trust is a nonprofit organization that funds development of projects that counter 17 percent of new power plant CO 2 emissions.

    Program Type: Sequestration and Offsets
    State: Oregon

  • Promoting Wind Energy Production through the Tax Code
    West Virginia made two adjustments to its tax code for utility-owned wind power: a lowered property tax on utility-owned wind turbines and a lowered Business and Operation (B&O) tax for utilities using wind power generation.

    Program Type: Energy Supply
    State: West Virginia

  • Public Facilities Energy Efficiency Program
    The Indiana Public Facilities Energy Efficiency Program provides loans that help public entities in the state identify and implement energy efficiency projects.

    Program Type: Energy Efficiency
    State: Indiana

  • Recycling Market Development Board
    The Recycling Market Development Program reduces landfill waste and saves energy in Indiana by strengthening the recycling infrastructure.

    Program Type: Waste Management
    State: Indiana

  • Reduction of CO2 Emissions from Power Plants
    Massachusetts has established a multi-pollutant cap that requires six older power plants to reduce their CO 2 emissions by ten percent relative to 1997-1999 levels by 2006 or 2008, depending on the method of compliance chosen.

    Program Type: Energy Supply
    State: Massachusetts

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  • Releaf Program
    Minnesota's Releaf Program promotes and funds the planting of trees as a means to store carbon and save energy.

    Program Types: Energy Efficiency, Forestry, Sequestration and Offsets
    State: Minnesota

  • Renewable Energy Program
    The California Energy Commission's Renewable Energy Program supports renewable electricity generation technologies and helps develop a renewable energy market to avoid greenhouse gas emissions.

    Program Type: Energy Supply
    State: California

  • Renewable Portfolio Standard
    Electricity providers are required to obtain renewable energy capacity, finance construction of renewable energy facilities, and develop new renewable energy resources.

    Program Type: Energy Supply
    State: Texas

  • Renewable Portfolio Standard
    Nevada's renewable portfolio standard requires that 5 percent of the state's energy be generated through renewable resources by 2003 and increases biannually by 2 percent, arriving at a standard of 15 percent renewables by 2013.

    Program Type: Energy Supply
    State: Nevada

  • Reporting and Crediting System for Greenhouse Gases
    Wisconsin has mandatory reporting requirements for large generators of CO 2 and has a registry that allows firms to report reductions of CO 2, with the intent of allowing them to obtain credit for reduction in any future federal or state GHG program.

    Program Type: Industry
    State: Wisconsin

  • Smart Growth Program
    Maryland's Smart Growth program combines various initiatives to limit the expansion of urban sprawl, preserve natural resources, and support existing communities by targeting state resources to those areas already developed or thoroughly planned.

    Program Type: Comprehensive
    State: Maryland

  • Tinedale Farm Anaerobic Digestion Energy System
    A pilot manure-to-energy recovery project provides an alternative energy source and reduces manure waste disposal.

    Program Types: Agriculture, Energy Supply, Waste Management
    State: Wisconsin

  • Universal Systems Benefit Program
    The Universal Systems Benefit (USB) Program offers market-transforming renewable energy, energy efficiency, and funding programs.

    Program Types: Energy Efficiency, Energy Supply
    State: Montana

  • Western Climate Initiative


    Program Type: Comprehensive
    States: Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington

  • Zero-Emission Vehicle Incentive Program
    The California Zero-Emission Vehicle Incentive Program provides grants of up to $9, 000 per vehicle toward the purchase or lease of new zero-emission vehicles.

    Program Type: Transportation
    State: California