Louisiana Environmental Regulators Craft Program to Allow Buying and Selling Pollution Credits
By Steve Hardy, The Advocate, Baton Rouge
Farms and industrial plants that discharge pollutants into Louisiana wetlands and waterways will soon have a new system to buy and sell pollution credits. State officials said the idea behind pollution credits was inspired by carbon trading programs intended to curb air pollution. But some environmental watchdogs are skeptical of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality's plan, officially called the Water Quality Trading program.