Global Policy Innovations Program: For the first time, a carbon market is opening for business in the United States. The long awaited Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), takes effect on January 1, 2009. Utilities in ten states–Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont–will be required to purchase carbon emission rights or find themselves unable to operate. The RGGI, known as Reggie, dates to 2003. New York’s then-governor, George Pataki, …