Inside Trade

October 8, 2024

DOE unveils industrial emissions pilot to support White House trade task force

By Margaret Spiegelman  / September 25, 2024 at 6:49 PM
The Energy Department on Wednesday announced a pilot project to collect statistics on the emissions of certain industrial products – an effort the administration says will help inform the White House’s recently established task force on climate and trade in its work with trade partners. “As the market for clean manufacturing grows, the United States, trading partners, manufacturers, and consumers need a fair, coherent system for measuring the GHG intensity of energy-intensive industrial products,” Energy said in a statement about...

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