US DOE and the White House http://www.energy.gov/news/8870.htm (press release) http://www.eere.energy.gov/pdfs/retrofit_ramp-up_map.pdf (map of selected projects) http://www.energy.gov/news/documents/Retrofit_Ramp-Up_Project_List.pdf (details on selected projects) [From press release] Vice President Biden will today kick off five days of Administration events around the 40th anniversary of Earth Day with the announcement of the selection of 25 communities for up to $452 million … Continue reading »
Posted on April 21, 2010 …
Climate Change : GSA Position Statement (adopted October 2006, revised April 2010)
Geological Society of America http://www.geosociety.org/positions/pos10_climate.pdf [Dot Earth] The Geological Society of America, after some tussling last year, has updated its official statement on global climate change, strongly aligning with statements by the world’s scientific academies, the American Geophysical Union, and a letter to Congress from 18 American scientific associations last year. Here’s the central conclusion … Continue reading »
Annual Estimates of the Loss in Households’ Purchasing Power Under H.R. 2454 (the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009)
Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/105xx/doc10524/04-20-SmithLetter.pdf [From the CBO Director's Blog] This morning CBO released a letter responding to a request from Representative Christopher Smith for additional information on the costs that H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (as passed by the House of Representatives), would impose on households as a result … Continue reading »
California Coastkeeper Alliance Map of Compliance with Water Quality Law
California Coastkeeper Alliance http://www.cacoastkeeper.org/programs/mapping-initiative/mmp1 [ResourceShelf.com] CCKA recognized World Water Day through the release of its new, statewide, online interactive map tracking industry’s compliance with water quality laws. This tool maps all dischargers throughout the state issued mandatory minimum penalties (MMPs) since 2000. The state levies MMPs for “serious” and “multiple chronic” water quality law violations. … Continue reading »
The Social Cost of Road Congestion in Ile-de-France Region (and France) : Empirical Evidences from the Paris Ring-Road
Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / by Martin Koning http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/46/78/88/PDF/PRR.pdf [Abstract] The aim of this article was to assess specific problems concerning traffic congestion access to the city of Paris. First, Martin Koning attempted to evaluate the evolution of the congestion cost for the Paris Ring-Road (PRR), the major urban highway surrounding the French capital, during the … Continue reading »
Getting Cars Off the Road : The Cost-Effectiveness of an Episodic Pollution Control Program
National Bureau of Economic Research working papers (available full text on-site at RFF) / by Maureen L. Cropper, Yi Jiang, Anna Alberini and Patrick Baur http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15904 [Abstract] Ground-level ozone remains a serious problem in the United States. Because ozone non-attainment is a summer problem, episodic rather than continuous controls of ozone precursors are possible. Maureen … Continue reading »
The EU Emission Trading Scheme – Insights from the First Trading Years with a Focus on Price Volatility
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) / by Claudia Kettner, Angela Köppl and Stefan Schleicher http://tinyurl.com/y82m3vs [Abstract] The EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is a key instrument in European climate policy. Evidence from the first trading period (2005-2007) and the first year of the Kyoto period (2008) dampened, however, ex-ante enthusiasm. Because of [a] … Continue reading »
