Expert Available for Comment on Virginia Carbon Emission Regulations

The public comment period for Virginia’s draft regulations to cut carbon emissions from power plants ends April 9. The draft plan aims to cap emissions from the state’s electricity sector beginning in 2020 and to reduce them 30 percent by 2030.

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“Although Virginia would not be formally part of RGGI—it needs legislation for this—the state is forging a new path for other states interested in a similar linkage,” said Kate Konschnik, director of the Climate and Energy Program at Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. “Virginia is designing a carbon program that meets its needs and links to a mature carbon market to ease utility compliance. This may be the wave of the future for RGGI.”

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Kate Konschnik directs the Climate & Energy Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, and is a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School. Konschnik's work focuses on options for public electric utility regulation and electricity market reforms given emerging technologies and de-carbonization goals. Konschnik has also worked extensively on effective governance of unconventional oil and gas production and transport.

• For additional comment, contact Kate Konschnik at:
  919-613-8725; katherine.konschnik@duke.edu