Huge Consequences Likely to California’s Greenhouse Gas Proposal

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Date

Oct. 14, 2015

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Media Highlight

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DGI Wire

"This view is countered by Dallas Burtraw, senior fellow at Resources for the Future, a think tank based in Washington D.C., who told NPR he believes that the proposal is aggressive but could be accomplished in time and that the ambition to do so is going to be contagious. Burtraw added that the state has been a longtime leader in environmental policymaking."

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California

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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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