Wind Energy FTC Review by Nancy Wahlstrom

It is a personal dream of mine that the Federal Government or some other agency would take a hard look at the emerging market for carbon credits and advertising claims.

I hope that you will take a minute to send comments if you think that these programs need strict government oversight or have complaints.
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Federal Trade Commission
Title: Public Workshop and Request for Comments
Subject Category: Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims; Carbon Offsets and Renewable Energy Certificates
Published: November 27, 2007 View Notice (PDF) (Download Adobe Reader)
Comments Due: Friday, January 25, 2008

How To Comment: On January 8, 2008, the Federal Trade Commission will host a one-day public workshop to examine the emerging market for carbon offsets (i.e., greenhouse gas emission reduction products) and renewable energy certificates, and related advertising claims. The workshop will be a component on the Commission's regulatory review of the Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims. The Commission invites interested parties to comment on issues related to the workshop. Please refer to the Federal Register Notice for a discussion of the various issues. Comments may be submitted before or after the workshop provided they are received by January 25, 2008.

Pre-registration is not necessary to attend the workshop, but is encouraged so that the Commission can better plan for the event. To pre-register, please email your name and affiliation to carbonworkshop@ftc.gov.

Privacy & Use The FTC Act and other laws the Commission administers permit the collection of public comments to consider and use in this proceeding as appropriate. All timely and responsive public comments, whether filed in paper or electronic form, will be considered by the Commission, and will be available to the public on the FTC Web site, to the extent practicable, at www.ftc.gov. Any information placed in the following fields on this form -- "Title," "First Name," "Last Name," "Organization Name,' "State," "Postal Code," "Country,' "Comments," and "Attachment" -- will be publicly available on the FTC Web site. Although filling out this comment form is voluntary, the fields marked with an asterisk are required in order for the FTC to fully consider a particular comment. As a matter of discretion, the FTC makes every effort to remove home contact information for individuals from the public comments it receives before placing those comments on the FTC Web site. More information, including other routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, may be found in the FTC's privacy policy, at http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.htm.

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