Carbon Pricing in the US: Examining State-Level Policy Support and Federal Resistance

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Carbon pricing is a key policy instrument used to steer markets towards the adoption of low-carbon technologies. In last two decades, several carbon policies have been implemented or debated at state and federal levels in US. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative California cap-and-trade are regional operational today. While there no today, proposals introduced Congress decade. Using literature on interest group politics entrepreneurship, this article examines subnational First, explores evolution main policies, cap-and-trade, identify how groups entrepreneurs shaped design implementation respective policies. Second, details bills discussed Third, it factors that limit prospects realizing an ambitious price for pursuing deep decarbonization US economy. finds suffers from lack any natural and/or consistent constituency support through development, legislation, implementation. mitigated by good entrepreneurship level, changing positions competing kept becoming reality.

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عنوان ژورنال: Politics and Governance

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['2183-2463']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v10i1.4857