"The Climate Gap Between Republican Voters and Republican Lawmakers"
Dallas Burtraw is quoted in Bloomberg article on partisan divide on climate legislation.
Dallas Burtraw was quoted in Bloomberg article on partisan divide on climate legislation.
“Carbon pricing hasn’t yet taken off but there are real-world examples of how it can work. Ten states across the East Coast currently participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), and Virginia is about to join. Dallas Burtraw, a senior fellow at Resources for the Future, says RGGI has raised billions for energy efficiency investments without raising the price of CO2 emissions all that much. In California, which has its own program, the cost of CO2 is at now $18 per metric ton, which for consumers is largely offset by plummeting prices for renewable energy.”
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