Even so, Mrs. Whitman hoped from the beginning to incorporate the revisions in a larger legislative package that would impose nationwide caps on major pollutants and actually demand sacrifices from industry.

In June of 2009, the House approved the American Clean Energy and Security Act, also known as the Waxman-Markey bill, which would have imposed a nationwide cap on emissions.

Senator Herb Kohl, a Wisconsin Democrat who had originally wanted to place a nationwide cap on the homestead exemption but accepted the compromise language, said in a statement that the concerns of the law school professors were unfounded.

PAGE E31 Companies Seek Carbon Cap Ten major companies have banded with environmental groups to call for a nationwide cap on carbon dioxide emissions.

Former President George W. Bush proposed a nationwide $250,000 cap in medical malpractice cases.

Japan has its own emission reduction policy but not a nationwide cap and trade program.

Power plants that do not exceed a nationwide cap can sell their credits to plants that do.

For the last six years, Westchester's allocation has been "frozen" at $8.8 million, part of a nationwide cap on funds from the program.

For another, emissions trading - which is seen as a way to reduce the overall costs - will not work properly without a nationwide cap.

In 2007, Senator Lautenberg wrote the law lifting an arbitrary nationwide cap on baggage screeners, allowing the Transportation Security Administration to hire more screeners for Newark-Liberty Airport.