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Cap and Trade; Carbon; Emission; Environmental Policy; Federalism
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Carbon Emission Policy In The United States: State Patchwork Vs. National Policy, Samuel T. Frank
Carbon Emission Policy In The United States: State Patchwork Vs. National Policy, Samuel T. Frank
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The lack of a national law in the United States to mitigate climate change has prompted many states and cities to take the lead in implementing policies to reduce their carbon emissions and adapt to the threats posed by a warming planet. This project adopts two established systems that classify states by their relative involvement in climate policy (Wheeler 2010; Lutsey et al. 2008) and combines them into a single, six-point ranking scale. States are then cross-tabulated against EPA data showing the amount and trajectory of each state's carbon emissions from the electrical power sector over the period 2005-2010. States …