Politico’s Jeremy B. White and Andy Blatchford quote me in a story about Québécois Premier François Legault’s visit with Governor Newsom to discuss the two governments’ cap-and-trade partnership, which the U.S. Department of Justice has challenged in court:
“What really matters is how you get others to follow, and cooperation between subnational governments like California and Quebec is often seen as a way to do that,” said Danny Cullenward, a Stanford economist who helps oversee California’s cap-and-trade program.
But that effort to generate some momentum doesn’t guarantee a durable result, Cullenward said, given that it’s unenforceable.
“It’s really just a political commitment that’s been written down,” Cullenward said. “It’s not a commitment that a party could take to a court in another jurisdiction and enforce.”