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Dallas Burtraw is one of the nation’s foremost experts on environmental regulation in the electricity sector. For two decades, he has worked on creating a more efficient and politically rational method for controlling air pollution. He also studies electricity restructuring, competition, and economic deregulation. He is particularly interested in incentive-based approaches for environmental regulation, the most notable of which is a tradable permit system, and recently has studied ways to introduce greater cost-effectiveness into regulation under the Clean Air Act.

Posts by Dallas Burtraw:

• Mercury and Air Toxics Standards Analysis Deconstructed: Changing Assumptions, Changing Results
• Deconstructing the Expected Impact of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards
• Linking Carbon Markets Offers More Than Economic Benefits
• Aligning Carbon Markets: The Case of California and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
• Thinking Like an Economist within the Complex Climate Policy Regime
• U.S. Emissions Trends: Optimism, Pessimism, and One Big Decision
• Climate in the Second Inaugural: Signal and Substance
• The Washington Post on California’s Cap and Trade Program
• NRDC’s Clean Air Act GHG Plan
• California’s First Carbon Auction Successful