WATCH: Former Governors Bill Ritter and Christie Todd Whitman Discuss the EPA's Clean Power Plan and Recent Supreme Court Decision

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March 24, 2016

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Brookings

"This event also included a panel discussion with experts on environmental policy and politics who discussed data issues, political sustainability, and the role of state and local governments in energy policy and the implementation of the Clean Power Plan. This panel included Greg R. White, executive director of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners;Jonas Monast, director of the Climate and Energy Program at Duke University; Josh Linn of Resources for the Future, and Brookings Fellow Philip A. Wallach."

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Joshua Linn

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Josh Linn is a senior fellow at RFF. His research centers on the effects of environmental policies and economic incentives for new technologies in the transportation, electricity, and industrial sectors.

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