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We blogged<\/a> yesterday about the latest Next 10 report<\/a> that analyzes the economic impacts of policies designed to help California reduce its climate pollution. It notes California\u2019s record-breaking pace on clean energy funding and innovation, while reducing pollution and growing its economy. Since 1990, California\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 16 percent while carbon emissions per capita fell.<\/p>\n

Today, a new report<\/a> released by Environment America finds that the 10 Northeastern states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative<\/a> (RGGI) have seen similar results. The states cut per capita carbon emissions 20 percent faster than the rest of the nation from 2000-2009 while regional per capital GDP grew 87 percent faster.<\/p>\n

Add this good news to the findings of a report<\/a> released last November\u2014which estimated that investments made by RGGI states in its first three years of operation added economic value worth more than $1.6 billion (nearly $33 per person) and 16,000 jobs\u2014and you have further proof that strong environmental policies deliver economic benefits to states that lead on climate change. That is worth celebrating on Earth Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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