Massachusetts’ proposed H2810 puts a price on carbon pollution and invests 30% of all revenue ($400–600 million per year) in local clean transportation, resiliency, and renewable energy projects.
A proposed ‘Regulation for Emissions Trading’ was approved by the Virginia State Air Pollution Control Board. The regulation proposed a a system that would be in line with many of RGGI’s major design features, with the aim to link with RGGI by 2020.
Would have enacted a carbon emissions fee of $15 per metric ton of carbon beginning on January 1, 2020, and increased the fee by $2 annually until the state's greenhouse gas reduction goals were met.
Oregon’s House Bill 2020 proposed a statewide cap-and-trade program starting in 2021, with a declining allowance budget leading to a 45% reduction in GHG emissions below 1990 levels by 2035.
New Mexico established a Climate Change Task Force to evaluate strategies and policies to reduce GHG emissions, including the adoption of a comprehensive market-based program that sets emissions limits to reduce CO2.
A group of state legislators from 12 states devoted to accurately accounting for the cost of carbon pollution.
A ten-state compact (as of July 2020) among mostly Northeastern states to cap carbon emissions from the power sector and use permit auction proceeds to spur clean energy development.
California and Quebec linked their cap and trade systems under the Western Climate Initiative in 2014.
Allowed utilities to recover costs of financing nuclear construction, provided it passes a prudency review of pre-construction costs.
Surveys design and modeling principles, potential externalities, oversight and compliance considerations, and case studies.