In Focus: State-Level Carbon Pricing

Nicholas Roy

Date

July 31, 2025

Guest

Nicholas Roy

Producers

Annie M. Tastet and Maya Krainc

Image

blvdone / Shutterstock

Federal climate action is stalling, but states have their own tools to meet their decarbonization goals. In this In Focus video, RFF Research Associate Nicholas Roy highlights the emissions trading system, a market-based policy that California, Washington, and other states are implementing and improving upon to reduce emissions and bring in revenue.

Related People

Related content

What’s Happening to Electricity Affordability? in Five Charts

Jesse Buchsbaum and Jenya Kahn-Lang

USA Today: “Is America Done with Clean Energy? Why Wind, Solar Power Are in Peril”

Legal Planet: “The Woeful Economics of a Misguided Rollback”

E&E News: “Carbon Markets Rebound after Bondi Fails to Report on State Programs”