"Cap and trade fails in Va. Now what?"

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May 6, 2019

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"'Having Virginia in the program would have been a nice feather and could have shown whether it could continue to deliver in a state with a lot of new gas,' said Karen Palmer, director of the Future of Power Initiative at Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank."

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Karen Palmer is a senior fellow at Resources for the Future and an expert on the economics of environmental, climate and public utility regulation of the electric power sector.

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