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Inside WCI: Thresholds

Posted on July 31, 2008

Does raising the threshold lower the bar?By Eric de Place for the Sightline Institute's blog, The Daily Score. This is the third in 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.One of the core questions in cap and trade -- really, for any regulatory system -- is who, exactly, participates. Ideally, the program would include as many sources of climate pollution as possible without creating an administrative nightmare. (In fact, administrative simplicity is one of the main re...

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