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Challenges from State-Federal Interactions in US Climate Change Policy
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With a focus on two sorts of regulation—renewable electricity and clean energy standards, and automobile fuel-economy standards—we analyze problematic interactions that arise when state policies are nested within the domain of Federal policy. Here state efforts may fail to reduce greenhouse gas emissions nationally, and may compromise cost-effectiveness. Difficulties from overlapping regulations are avoidable through price- (as opposed to quantity-) based Federal policy. We identify some potentially positive interactions between state and Federal policies, and identify rationales for state action when Federal and state policies do not overlap.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Goulder, L. H., & Stavins, R. N.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- ORCID
- Stavins, Robert N
- Venue
- American Economic Review
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2011-05-01
- Volume
- 101
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 253-257
- ISSN
- 0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2020487349
- Cited by
- 135
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 10
- FWCI
- 28.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Economic Review (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Keywords
- federal-state relations, climate policy, clean energy standard, overlapping regulations, greenhouse gas emissions, cost-effectiveness, federalism
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