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Pricing Carbon Pollution presentation Monday
Want to learn more about how Carbon fee and dividend is good for jobs? Citizens Climate Lobby and Brown are hosting a presentation at 7 pm
Pricing Carbon Pollution:
A Presentation on a National Carbon Fee & Dividend Study by Economist Scott Nystrom
MONDAY, DEC. 8, at 7:00 pm Brown University Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106
95 Cushing St., Providence, RI
• What is carbon fee and dividend? • What economic and public health effects
will a national carbon fee and dividend
policy have in nine regions of the U.S.? • How quickly will coal be phased out? • How quickly will emissions be reduced? • Why do conservatives like this policy?
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 Regional Economic Models, Inc. (REMI), in Washington, DC. His recent 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, REMI has provided economic impact studies for governmental and private-sector clients.
Info: Solomon_Goldstein-Rose@brown.edu
