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Melissa Carey

Climate Change Policy Specialist

Areas of expertise: Climate change, U.S. climate policy, U.S. Congress

Work

Melissa Carey helps lead EDF’s work on federal climate change policy. She consults with state legislative and congressional staff on policy development efforts, and serves as EDF’s technical expert on market-based environmental protections.

She has also published peer reviewed articles and newspaper commentary on climate change policy. She recently helped coordinate the University of Maryland's study, The U.S. Economic Impacts of Climate Change and the Costs of Inaction (October 2007).

Background

  • M.A., Public Policy, LBJ School, Austin, TX.

Melissa served as a legislative aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a senior member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (1997-1999). In this capacity, she:

  • developed legislative proposals to construct a national trading system for nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide, and to limit mobile source emissions; and
  • worked with other Committee staff to develop legislative proposals to encourage "early action" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the American private sector.

She also served as liaison to American Congressional delegation at the COP-6 in The Hague, Netherlands (2000), and as project consultant to Cantor Fitzgerald Environmental Brokerage Services.

Publications

Contact

Washington, D.C. office

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Media Contact

Tony Kreindler
(202) 572-3378 (office)
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