Carbon Pricing in the US
Examining State-Level Policy Support and Federal Resistance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13053782 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Easwaran Narassimhan (0000-0001-8910-2246, Harvard University, corresponding author), Stefan Koester (0000-0001-5970-4502), Kelly Sims Gallagher (0000-0002-4724-8949, Tufts University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics and Governance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-2463 • E-ISSN: 2183-2463 |
| Publisher | Cogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17645/pag.v10i1.4857 |
| OpenAlex | W4212939549 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 35 |
Carbon pricing is a key policy instrument used to steer markets towards the adoption of low-carbon technologies. In the last two decades, several carbon pricing policies have been implemented or debated at the state and federal levels in the US. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and the California cap-and-trade policy are the two regional policies operational today. While there is no federal policy operational today, several carbon pricing proposals have been introduced in Congress in the last decade. Using the literature on interest group politics and policy entrepreneurship, this article examines the carbon pricing policies at the subnational and federal levels in the US. First, the article explores the evolution of two main regional carbon pricing policies, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and California cap-and-trade, to identify how interest groups and policy entrepreneurs shaped the design and implementation of the respective policies. Second, the article details the federal carbon pricing policy proposals and bills discussed in the last decade. Third, it examines the factors that limit the prospects of realizing an ambitious federal carbon price for pursuing deep decarbonization of the US economy. The article finds that federal carbon pricing in the US suffers from the lack of any natural and/or consistent constituency to support it through policy development, legislation, and implementation. While interest group politics have been mitigated by good policy entrepreneurship at the subnational level, the lack of policy entrepreneurship and the changing positions of competing interest groups have kept a federal carbon pricing policy from becoming a reality
Business · Economic growth · Economic policy · Economics · Emissions trading · Entrepreneurship · Greenhouse gas · Legislation · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public policy · State (computer science · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies · Policy Transfer and Learning · Finance
Carbon Coalitions
Political economy constraints on carbon pricing policies
Revenue use and public support for a carbon tax
Gubernatorial entrepreneurship and United States federal-state interaction
The Impact of Veto Players on Incremental and Drastic Policy Making
California’s Cap-and-Trade System
Ratcheting Up Carbon Trade
Design, Performance and Interstate Collaboration
The Politics of Carbon Market Design
Arenas of Power in Climate Change Policymaking
Policy Entrepreneurs, Legislators, and Agenda Setting
The Durability of Carbon Cap‐and‐Trade Policy
Mapping and clustering the adoption of carbon pricing policies
Who and what are carbon markets for? Politics and the development of climate policy
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |