Policy Memo: An Environmental Justice Analysis Can Accelerate Carbon Progress in Pennsylvania

Published on December 22, 2020

The case for joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which Pennsylvania's governor embraced in 2019, asserts that trading carbon credits can marshal market discipline to achieve policy goals for broad decarbonization. In this example from the policy-memo segment of our online Financing and Deploying Clean Energy program, our writer argues for running participation through another set of metrics. Gauging how a cap-and-trade scheme affects environmental justice can complicate- and enrich- analysis.

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