Platts North American Environmental Markets Service

S&P Global Commodity Insights examines forces affecting the U.S. acid rain, fine particulate, and ozone-related emissions markets; markets for greenhouse gases and emerging controls for mercury, heavy metals, acid gases, plus other waste discharges into air, water, or land. You will gain a big-picture perspective on significant longer-term environmental regulatory and market developments as well as up-to-date, detailed data and analysis needed to make informed near-term decisions.

• — Understand how policies to reduce energy sector environmental impacts and emissions drive changes that affect your bottom line
• — Develop a view of how market-based environmental policy mechanisms and the value they put on clean energy affect operating and investment decisions
• — Identify the complex set of economic, regulatory, and legal risks that accompany new regulatory actions
• — Uncover the story behind the numbers and get insights into the commercial drivers along the value chain
• — Know the industry backdrop for evaluating commodity and equity investments

• — Comprehensive analysis of North American environmental regulations and markets for CO2, NOx, SO2, mercury, and renewables, assessing allowance/credit prices, energy markets, and assets.
• — Analysis of and forecasts for regional emissions trading systems (EU ETS, WCI, RGGI, CSAPR, etc.)
• — Coverage of North American greenhouse gas developments, including special studies of the EPA's Clean Power Plan
• — Assessments of emerging global carbon policy efforts and markets
• — U.S. environmental regulatory tracking and analysis of topical trends and current events
• — Renewables credit (REC) market outlooks
• — Fracking policy monitor
• — Analysis of topical trends and current events
• — Emissions market price forecasts
• — CO2 emissions projections by country
• — WCI/RGGI emissions data, auction bidders, and summary statistics
• — Canada emissions data
• — Western Climate Initiative auction bidders and summary statistics