RGGI compliance confirmation - Market administrator RGGI Inc. released on Tuesday its 2025 interim compliance report, which confirmed that every compliance entity under the US Northeast and Mid-Atlantic power sector cap-and-trade scheme complied with its annual interim obligations in line with the Mar. 2 deadline. The interim compliance deadline was the second for the programme's Sixth Control Period, which runs from 2024-26. Compliance entities were required to surrender allowances equating to 50% of their 2025 obligations. While obligated CO2 output under RGGI in 2025 was up about 5.3% YoY, according to updated CO2 Allowance Tracking System (COATS) data, compliance entities held enough allowances to meet compliance obligations at the end of Q4 2025, a report from market monitor Potomac Economics released last week showed. Regulated RGGI entities will face a true-up compliance deadline on Mar. 1, 2027 for the remainder of obligations in the Sixth Control Period.

Washington and carbon market partners California and Quebec released a draft agreement to link their emissions trading systems (ETSs) on Tuesday for public comment.

Federal transportation officials lost their bid to terminate New York’s congestion pricing programme on Tuesday after a US district court granted summary judgment to state transit agencies and ruled that the government’s attempted rescission was unlawful.

Remediated – The US EPA will consider fully or partially paring back eight Superfund sites across six states, releasing a draft notice of intent on Tuesday. E&E News reported that the Trump administration aims to expedite Superfund site remediation and repurpose some sites for data centres. The official proposal will be published on Wednesday, kicking off a 30-day comment period. EPA has consulted with its state counterparts in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, and New York, which, according to the notice, agreed with the federal assessment about the deletions.

A Calgary-based low-carbon materials developer is continuing its C-suite revamp, adding a new chief financial officer to its executive branch.

A US-based manufacturer of construction equipment announced a partnership focused on developing clean solutions utilising carbon capture and storage (CCS) to power data centres.

Colombia has for a decade been planning a cap-and-trade system (Spanish: PNCTE) and is months from publishing the final regulation – but the country must first consider its pre-existing CO2 pricing landscape, according to experts.

Human-free verification - Texas-based Waste Energy’s patent-pending carbon credit automation system would seek to remove human error from the reporting chain and create blockchain-backed carbon credits. The company said in an update that its system would use on-site video monitoring and sensor data to capture the conversion process in real time. That data is then run through a carbon credit algorithm when a match is confirmed, a credit is created automatically, minted as an NFT, and deposited directly into a digital wallet. It said the result is a verifiable, immutable record of exactly how and when the credit was generated amid credibility concerns. The company’s first project in the Texas Permian Basin would process 10,000 tonnes of waste tires annually, and could offset 12,800 t/CO2e per year at full capacity – though the company has yet to validate its process through a third-party validation and registry methodology.

Pathways promise untested - Prime Minister Mark Carney included the C$16.5 bln ($12.1 bln) Pathways CCS project in the Canada-Alberta pipeline deal with limited details on the project, including few engineering studies and cost-estimates based on limited information, according to a report by Desmog. The outlet obtained a briefing note by the Department of Finance ahead of a Sep. 2025 roundtable meeting in Edmonton.

Canadian carbon convening - Canadian CDR and carbon pricing advocates have met with government stakeholders in recent weeks. Melissa Hillier, associate director of policy for the Carbon Business Council, wrote in a post it convened its Canada Working Group in-person in Ottawa. She said companies representing a breadth of CDR pathways, buyers, and ecosystem partners met with decision-makers across government to share a unified vision for the sector’s emergence in Canada. Representatives from the think tank Canadian Climate Institute also posted to LinkedIn about meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney over climate policy, energy transition, and competitiveness.

A direct air capture (DAC) project developer has secured an offtake agreement aimed at scaling carbon removals (CDR) in Kenya, the company announced this week.

Canadian biochar cash - Carbon Lock Tech has received grant funding from the Manitoba Mineral Development Fund (MMDF) to develop an assessment of Manitoba’s mining industry and the role that biochar can play in optimising operations, reducing costs, supporting soil remediation and/or enhancing tailings effluent management.

Experts charged with implementing the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM) have a tricky year ahead as they aim to fast-track implementation of the new Article 6 market, while ensuring standards are kept high, observers have said.

A Latin American biochar company has reached a significant milestone in credit issuance for the carbon removals (CDR) market, it said on Tuesday.

Clean vehicle rulemaking - Washington's Department of Ecology (ECY) released on Monday updated draft rule language for its Clean Vehicle Program, which increases zero emission vehicle sales of passenger cars, light-duty trucks, and medium-duty vehicles to 100% starting in 2035, as well as requiring cleaner burning engines in medium- and heavy-duty trucks. The ECY said the narrower scope of rulemaking in the update is intended to ensure the programme remains consistent with federal and state law. Specifically, the agency said it has put on hold updates intended to align with California’s Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) and Omnibus standards, while also leaving out a proposed Utility Service Vehicle (USV) exemption after an ECY legal review found it could not be included in the rulemaking under the federal Clean Air Act. The ECY said the narrowed scope allows it to stay on its current timeline and focus on fleet reporting requirements and necessary emergency amendments while awaiting more certainty regarding national and California standards. The informal comment period for the rulemaking is open until Mar. 30.

RGGI Carbon Allowances (RGAs) muddled in the mid-$23s last week, dipping lower on the week as traders noted a lack of clear drivers ahead of next week's Q1 auction.

A US-based fund focused on nature-based solutions (NbS) has issued a request for proposals, with funding of up to $1.3 million available in 2026.

Removal on the map – RMI and the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability have launched an interactive online tracker to monitor global progress in carbon removal (CDR) and direct air capture (DAC), covering 10 technology approaches and assessing their commercial status. The tracker builds on RMI's Applied Innovation Roadmap for CDR, published in 2023, which examined 32 CDR approaches and their path to deployment. A second phase, expected in summer 2026, will expand coverage to 13 additional CDR types and include a review of global academic activity in each approach. The project was funded by Cornell Atkinson.

A-rating – Colombia-based developer Biofix's 2-mln ha Ilha do Bananal+ project in Brazil has secured an ‘A’ rating from MSCI under its Carbon Project Ratings framework, it announced Monday on LinkedIn. Certified under Cercarbono, the project is located in the Amazon-Cerrado transition zone in the state of Tocantins. It includes both REDD+ and non-REDD+ activities in forest and wetland ecosystems. The project has already received 3.8 mln credits from Cercarbono. The rating signals alignment with institutional expectations on additionality, permanence risk mitigation, buffer design, and governance, executives from Biofix and MSCI said in a separate press release.

A California carbon management developer announced that its carbon capture and storage (CCS) project successfully captured CO2 from a gas processing plant during a call with financial analysts on Monday.

A Swiss-based insurer aims to replace buffer pools with regulated in-kind and in-cash cover, but says the Verra pilot will test the mechanism's efficiency and long-term sustainability.