What You Get for $502 Million? A Gentler Climate Plan

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Date

Aug. 5, 2015

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Media Highlight

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Bloomberg Politics

“This rule is about as ambitious as the administration can get away with,” said Nathan Richardson, an environmental and energy law professor at the University of South Carolina. “There are a lot of places where the administration pulled back from what they would like to do or what the greens would like them to do and they didn’t push as hard.”

Topics

Clean Energy Regulations

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Nathan Richardson

University Fellow

Nathan Richardson is an attorney and university fellow at RFF, where he specializes in environmental law and economics.

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