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Leigh Raymond (Purdue University)

Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons

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The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading

Leigh Raymond (Purdue University)

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MIT Press
16 September 2016

Social impact of disasters; Nuclear issues

Series: American and Comparative Environmental Policy

How the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative created a new paradigm in climate policy by requiring polluters to pay for their emissions for the first time.

In 2008, a group of states in the northeast United States launched an emissions trading program, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). With RGGI, these states-Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont-achieved what had been considered politically impossible- they forced polluters to pay the public for their emissions. The states accomplished this by conducting auctions of emissions ""allowances""; by 2014, they had raised more than $2.2 billion in revenues. In this first in-depth examination of RGGI, Leigh Raymond describes this revolutionary and influential policy model and explains the practical and theoretical implications for climate policy.

Other cap-and-trade schemes had been criticized for providing private profits rather than public benefits, allowing private firms to make money by buying and selling valuable ""rights to pollute."" RGGI, by contrast, directed virtually all emissions auction revenues to programs benefiting the public at large. By reframing the issue in terms of public benefits, environmental advocates emphasized the public ownership of the atmospheric commons and private corporations' responsibility to pay for their use of it.

Raymond argues that this kind of ""normative reframing"" is significant not only for environmental policy making but also for theories of the policy process, helping to explain and predict sudden policy change.

By: Leigh Raymond (Purdue University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780262529303
ISBN 10: 0262529300
Series: American and Comparative Environmental Policy
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 16 September 2016
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Leigh Raymond is Professor of Political Science at Purdue University, the coauthor of Buying Nature- The Limits of Land Acquisition as a Conservation Strategy, 1780-2004 (MIT Press) and the author of Private Rights in Public Resources- Equity and Property Allocation in Market-Based Environmental Policy.

Reviews for Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading

Raymond's Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons is a theoretically innovative and data rich book...a strong contribution to the general policy literature. —CHOICE connect

Winner of <PrizeName>Winner, 2017 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, sponsored by the American Political Science Association.</PrizeName> 2017
Winner of Winner, 2017 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, sponsored by the American Political Science Association. 2017
Winner of Winner, 2017 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, sponsored by the American Political Science Association.</PrizeName> 2017