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California Adopts Extensive 'Cap-and-Trade' Plan
— Oct 21, 2011California formally adopted the nation's most comprehensive so-called "cap-and-trade" system Thursday, an experiment by the world's eighth-largest economy that is designed to provide financial incentives for polluters to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Jan Mazurek, director of strategy and operations at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, is quoted in this piece by the Associated Press. Article also appeared in ABC, CBS and Fox news, NPR, Miami Herald, Palm Beach Post, Salon, The Canadian Press, Chicago Tribune, MSN Money, Sydney Morning Herald, Fresno Bee, San Francisco Herald, Dayton Daily News, Washington Examiner, and the Seattle Times.
New Series of Policy Briefs Assesses Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Opportunities "Beyond the Cap"
— Oct 27, 2008The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University has launched a new series of briefs that assesses how best to use offsets to incorporate greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation from sectors and actors outside a regulatory policy.




