EPA Can Improve Implementation of the Risk Management Program for Airborne Chemical Releases

US EPA, Office of Inspector General / Report contributors: Rick Beusse Hilda Canes Garduño Bao Chuong Jim Hatfield Erica Hauck Rebecca Matichuk PDF: Program for Airborne Chemical Releases [From document] What We Found: EPA can improve its program management and oversight to better assure that facilities covered by the Clean Air Act’s Risk Management Program … Continue reading »

A Green Global Recovery? Assessing US Economic Stimulus and the Prospects for International Coordination

World Resources Institute / by Trevor Houser and Shashank Mohan and Robert Heilmayr http://www.petersoninstitute.org/publications/pb/pb09-3.pdf [From Petersen Institute press release] Trevor Houser, Shashank Mohan, and Robert Heilmayr consider twelve proposed “green” stimulus programs and examine the economic, environmental, and energy-security costs and benefits of these proposals using the Energy Information Administration’s National Energy Modeling System and … Continue reading »

Employment and Other Economic Benefits from Advanced Coal Electric Generation with Carbon Capture and Storage (Preliminary Results)

BBC Research and Consulting for: Industrial Union Council, AFL-CIO, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers, and Helpers, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, United Mine Workers of America and American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity http://www.americaspower.org/content/download/1459/10428/file/BBC%20FINAL%20020709.pdf [Behindtheplug.com] In a new report, a coalition of key labor groups find that between 5 million and … Continue reading »