9 States Deciding Whether to Tighten Power Plant Emissions Rules in RGGI

In what Inside Climate News described as an important test of state governments' ability to counteract the Trump administration's retreat from climate policies, the nine states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative will soon decide whether to deepen greenhouse gas emissions cuts. The media outlet noted a study by the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and the Duke University Energy Initiative finding that the main driving factor in lowering emissions in the RGGI states was RGGI's cap-and-trade program.

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