Testimony on California's Statewide Trends of Greenhouse Gas Emissions to the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies

RFF Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow Dallas Burtraw testified to California's Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies about the Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee's 2023 annual report on the state's carbon market and related areas of environmental and economic performance.

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Date

March 11, 2024

Authors

Dallas Burtraw

Publication

Testimony and Public Comments

Reading time

1 minute

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Topics

Carbon Pricing

Authors

Dallas Burtraw

Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow

Dallas Burtraw is the Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow at RFF. Burtraw’s research includes analysis of the distributional and regional consequences of climate policy and the evolution of electricity markets, including renewables integration.

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