Save the date: Pricing Carbon Pollution: A Presentation on a National Carbon Fee & Dividend Study By REMI economist Scott Nystrom MONDAY, DEC. 8, at 7:00 pm Brown University Campus Location TBA What impacts will a carbon tax have on nine regions of the U.S.? When will coal be phased out? Will a carbon tax meet emissions reduction targets fast enough? RI Senator Sheldon Whitehouse recently introduced a carbon-pricing bill that includes providing dividends to households as one of the revenue options for fees collected from the fossil fuel industry. Scott Nystrom is a Senior Economic Associate at REMI, in Washington, DC. His major projects have included economic impact analyses of the federal “fiscal cliff” and sequestration, the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline, and carbon tax studies in Massachusetts, Washington, and California. Since 1980, Regional Economic Models, Inc. (REMI) has provided economic impact studies for governmental and private-sector clients. Info: [email protected]
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