In 1997, the State of Illinois adopted a trading program for volatile organic compounds in most of the Chicago area, called the Emissions Reduction Market System. Beginning 9L0-509 in 2000, over 100 major sources of pollution in eight Illinois counties began trading pollution credits.
In 2003, New York State proposed and attained commitments from nine Northeast states to form a cap Pass4sure 9L0-402 and trade carbon dioxide emissions program for power generators, called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. This program is due to launch on January 1, 2009 with the aim to reduce Testking 9L0-509 the carbon "budget" of each state's electricity generation sector to 10 percent below their 2009 allowances by 2018.
Also in 2003, U.S. corporations were able to trade CO2 emission allowances on the Chicago Climate 9L0-402 Exchange under a voluntary scheme. In August 2007, the Exchange announced a mechanism to create emission offsets for projects within the United States that cleanly destroy ozone-depleting substances
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