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Inside WCI: Federal pre-emption

Posted on August 22, 2008

By Eric de PlaceThis is part of a short series of posts that explain some important but often overlooked policy issues in the Western Climate Initiative -- the West's regional cap-and-trade system. (Much to readers' delight, this is the last installment I'm planning to write.) You can't talk about regional cap-and-trade very long before someone brings up the subject of pre-emption. What happens if the federal government creates a national cap-and-trade program? Would the regional programs disappear? And if so, why bother working on them? First, let's get one thing straight: no one knows ...

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