Policy Reports Taxes, Subsidies, and Regulation: A Guide to North Carolina’s Proposed Global Warming Policies
February 27, 2008
In 2006, North Carolina’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) formed an advisory group called the Climate Action Plan Advisory Group (CAPAG). This group’s task was to “develop recommendations for specific actions to help reduce or prevent climate change.” On October 16, 2007, CAPAG released a “final draft” of its 56 recommendations. One week later, these recommendations were presented to the Legislative Commission on Global Climate Change, a legislative body that will develop a final report with findings and recommendations by April 15, 2008. This report translates each CAPAG recommendation into plain English so that the public and policymakers can understand what really is being proposed. The recommendations often are vague, overbroad, or even contain multiple options within one recommendation. The goal is to cut through the fog and identify the essence of each recommendation.
