SUBSCRIBER NOTE: Platts to discontinue CAIR allowance assessments

Platts will discontinue its daily assessments for Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) allowances for each year 2014 and 2015 created by the Environmental Protection Agency.

CAIR allowances for 2015 (Platts symbol EDSO215) will be discontinued effective immediately while CAIR allowances for 2014 (Platts symbol EDSO214) will be discontinued on March 2 with the last daily assessment to be published on February 27.

These assessments are being discontinued following a return to relevancy of the federal emissions program due to the lifting of a stay by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia Circuit on the US Environmental Protection Agency's Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) in October 2014.

Platts has since January 17, 2012, published daily values for each year, starting with allowances for CAIR 2013.

The assessments appear daily in Coal Trader and Megawatt Daily.

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