As Virginia Explores Options for Carbon Trading, Joining RGGI a Possibility

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Date

July 11, 2017

News Type

Media Highlight

Source

Southeast Energy News

"To be held at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, the July 12 workshop is expected to include inputs from Lisa Moerner, Director of Corporate Public Policy at Dominion Energy, the state’s largest utility. Also slated to speak are representatives of Resources for the Future and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Both are to offer updated computer models for designing systems that can trade allowances tied to a cap that could be implemented in Virginia."

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