1.   And in Connecticut, the state no longer grants waivers to companies whose emissions exceed allowable limits, forcing them instead to buy pollution credits.

2.   Bailey said the industry would favor a system of pollution credits much like that which now governs industrial emissions of sulfur dioxide.

3.   A new electronic market for trading pollution credits is scheduled to open today via the Internet with some help from the Pacific Stock Exchange.

4.   ACE is not alone in trading pollution credits.

5.   But the rules also allow states to continue using the treadmill test and even to earn pollution credits if they demonstrate that treadmill testing is more effective.

6.   Emissions-trading programs, which cap pollution in a geographic area and let companies trade pollution credits to earn reductions are good strategies to pursue, Gray said.

7.   For example, on Thursday, and again today, the regional partnership met in Los Angeles to devise a way of trading pollution credits, Steele said.

8.   He traded pollution credits and energy credits for a TradeSpark subsidiary, said his sister, Erica.

9.   In Maine, widespread protests forced state officials to back away from a plan to offer pollution credits to a paper company.

10.   Only a few states -- New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Michigan and Connecticut -- currently allow trading in pollution credits.