Third Way / by Joshua Freed and Sam Hodas http://thirdway.org/publications/291 [Website] After reviewing more than two dozen academic, private sector, financial, and government studies on carbon pricing policies, the report contends that all 50 states will experience job growth. The report also finds wide agreement that a carbon price would save consumers billions of dollars … Continue reading »
Posted on May 26, 2010 …
Recovery Act : Clean Water Projects Are Underway, but Procedures May Not Be in Place to Ensure Adequate Oversight
Government Accountability Office (Testimony of David C. Trimble before the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives) http://www.gao.gov/pdfs/GAO-10-761T?source=ra [Summary] The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) included $4 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Water State Revolving Fund (SRF). This testimony—based on GAO’s report GAO-10-604, issued on May 26, … Continue reading »
Managing Spent Fuel and Nuclear Waste Successfully – What Needs to Be Done?
Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard University / by Matthew Bunn http://tinyurl.com/28ro37y Matthew Bunn testified to the “Blue-Ribbon Commission on the Nuclear Future” on Tuesday May 25, 2010, presenting testimony entitled “Managing Spent Fuel and Nuclear Waste Successfully – What Needs to Be Done?”
Canada’s Oil Sands Shrinking Window of Opportunity
RiskMetrics Group for CERES / by Yulia Reuter, Doug Cogan, Dana Sasarean, Mario Lopez Alcalá and Dinah Koehler http://www.ceres.org/oilsandsreport [Environmental Valuation and Cost Benefit News] — Canada’s Oil Sands Face Significant Financial and Environmental Risks as Great as Those in BP Spill – Long-Term Growth Plans on Collision Course With New Regulations, Climate Change. “The … Continue reading »
International Energy Outlook 2010 Highlights
US DOE. EIA (The complete report will be published in July.) http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/index.html [Press release] World marketed energy consumption grows 49 percent between 2007 and 2035, driven by economic growth in the developing nations of the world, according to the Reference case projection from the International Energy Outlook 2010… The global economic recession that began in … Continue reading »
The Potential for Scale and Sustainability in Weather Index Insurance for Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods
United Nations. International Fund for Agricultural Development and World Food Programme / by P. Hazell, J. Anderson, N. Balzer, A. Hastrup Clemmensen, U. Hess and F. Rispoli http://www.ifad.org/ruralfinance/pub/weather.pdf [UN Pulse] The research paper reports on the risks faced by farmers in agriculture from natural catastrophe to market and production risks that make their incomes unstable … Continue reading »
Electric Vehicles: charged with potential
Royal Academy of Engineering http://www.raeng.org.uk/ev [Press release] The introduction of electric vehicles on a large scale in the UK can only have a beneficial effect on CO2 emissions if low-carbon electricity, universal broadband provision and smart grids are in place to support the transition, according to a new report published by the UK Royal Academy … Continue reading »
An Assessment of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Environmental Performance Track Program
Rand Corp. / by Scott Hassell, Noreen Clancy, Nicholas Burger, Christopher Nelson, Rena Rudavsky, Sarah Olmstead http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR732/index.html This report addresses the conceptual basis of the National Environmental Performance Track program, a voluntary program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency between 2000 and 2009; its program design; and its implementation. Performance Track sought to improve … Continue reading »
Eliminating Electricity Deficit through Energy Efficiency in India: An Evaluation of Aggregate Economic and Carbon Benefits
US DOE. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / by Jayant Sathaye and Arjun Gupta http://ies.lbl.gov/node/429 [Press release] Electricity in India can be a dicey proposition. Half the population lacks access or is too poor to afford it. The other half is using so much that demand far outstrips supply, resulting in daily power outages. And with … Continue reading »
U.S. Offshore Oil and Gas Resources: Prospects and Processes
Congressional Research Service (April 26, 2010) http://opencrs.com/document/R40645/2010-04-26/?24856 [From summary] Access to potential oil and gas resources under the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) continues to be controversial. Moratoria on leasing and development in certain areas were established by Congress (beginning in 1981) and by the President (beginning in 1990). These moratoria were largely eliminated in … Continue reading »
