Hot Dish: Six Other States May Tax Carbon

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Date

March 21, 2016

News Type

Media Highlight

Source

Politico

"A Friday blog post by Dallas Burtraw, a senior fellow at Resources for the Future shows even these six liberal states proposing widely different prices: Rhode Island's legislation rise slowly to $15 per ton in by 2026 in real terms, while New York's would rise to $185 per ton by 2026, again in real terms."

Topics

Traditional Carbon Pricing

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Dallas Burtraw

Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow

Dallas Burtraw is the Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow at RFF. Burtraw’s research includes analysis of the distributional and regional consequences of climate policy and the evolution of electricity markets, including renewables integration.

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