Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading

by Leigh Stafford Raymond and Leigh Raymond

Book Overview

How the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative created a new paradigm in climate policy by requiring polluters to pay for their emissions for the first time.

In 2008, a group of states in the northeast United States launched an emissions trading program, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). With RGGI, these states--Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont--achieved...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262529300
• ISBN13: 9780262529303
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher