Ontario to Scrap Carbon-Cutting Plan as It Expands Elsewhere

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Date

June 15, 2018

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Media Highlight

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Bloomberg

"'Ontario is going to still have an obligation under the federal architecture and the cost of meeting that obligation could be higher,' said Dallas Burtraw, a senior fellow at Resources for the Future. 'The costs of the cap-and-trade program are small on retail gasoline rates.'"

Topics

Cap and Trade

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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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