{"653879":{"#nid":"653879","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Rivian Will Bring More Climate Jobs to Georgia, Even as the State Lags on Climate Policy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDan Matisoff, associate professor in the School of Public Policy was quoted in \u0026quot;Rivian Will Bring More Climate Jobs to Georgia, Even as the State Lags on Climate Policy,\u0026quot; published Dec. 20, 2021, on WABE.com.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMatisoff discussed the potential environmental impacts from the newly announced Rivian eclectic vehicle plant in Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMore EVs on the road means cleaner air locally, which Matisoff said is a good reason to promote them. But \u0026ldquo;most economists would agree that a lot of the incentives placed for electric vehicles are maybe not the most efficient way to reduce carbon dioxide,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFar more effective to reduce national and global emissions, Matisoff said, are policies like the Biden administration\u0026rsquo;s move to switch the federal government\u0026rsquo;s fleet \u0026mdash; some 600,000 cars and trucks \u0026mdash; to zero-emission vehicles.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2021-12-21 18:25:46","changed_gmt":"2022-01-14 18:55:31","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wabe.org\/rivian-will-bring-more-climate-jobs-to-georgia-even-as-the-state-lags-on-climate-policy\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-12-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-12-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"405851":{"id":"405851","type":"image","title":"Daniel Matisoff","body":null,"created":"1449254153","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:35:53","changed":"1475895129","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:09","alt":"Daniel Matisoff","file":{"fid":"76110","name":"danielmatisoffweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/danielmatisoffweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/danielmatisoffweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":47789,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/danielmatisoffweb.jpg?itok=dxf_75UL"}}},"media_ids":["405851"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}