NYCI electricity coverage, facility-specific caps could protect disadvantaged communities and prevent leakage -report

A report published Monday by a US-based nonprofit found that obligating the electricity sector and including facility-specific caps under New York's future cap-and-invest programme (NYCI) - which is set to exclude the use of offsets - would help to reduce leakage and protect disadvantaged communities (DACs) from the adverse effects of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.