Senator Jeff Bingaman via Politico http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39669.html [From Michael Levi's Blog] Earlier this afternoon, several media outlets posted a discussion draft of a utility-only cap-and-trade bill that Senator Jeff Bingaman is apparently working on. It’s not a finished product (provisions for offsets, for example, remain to be added) and apparently is a slightly out-of-date iteration (dating … Continue reading »
Posted on July 15, 2010 …
Economic Benefits of a Comprehensive Feed-In Tariff : An Analysis of the REESA in California
Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory. Energy and Resources Group. University of California, Berkeley / by Max Wei and Daniel Kammen http://tinyurl.com/2dyjzgt [From introduction] The REESA is a legislative proposal for California that institutes a statewide Feed-In Tariff (FIT), or a pre-specified electricity price paid to mid-sized clean energy distributed generation installations (1-20 MW) with rates … Continue reading »
Using Biofuel Tax Credits to Achieve Energy and Environmental Policy Goals
Director’s Blog. Congressional Budget Office / by Ron Gecan and Rob Johansson http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=11477&type=1 [From commentary] The federal government supports the use of biofuels—transportation fuel produced usually from renewable plant matter, such as corn—in the pursuit of national energy, environmental, and agricultural policy goals. Tax credits encourage the production and sale of biofuels in the United … Continue reading »
Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Return Migration to New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina
Population Reference Bureau / by Elizabeth Fussell, Narayan Sastry, and Mark VanLandingham http://www.prb.org/Articles/2010/katrina.aspx Hurricane Katrina displaced almost the entire population of New Orleans in August 2005, scattering residents across the region, state, and country. By the fall of 2006, almost half the residents had returned, and almost two-thirds had returned by the fall of 2007. … Continue reading »
Interactions between State and Federal Climate Change Policies
Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School / by Lawrence Goulder and Robert N. Stavins http://tinyurl.com/2vudq3p Federal action addressing climate change is likely to emerge either through new legislation or via the U.S. EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act. The prospect of federal action raises important questions regarding the interconnections … Continue reading »
Three Key Elements of Post-2012 International Climate Policy Architecture
Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School / by Sheila M. Olmstead and Robert N. Stavins http://tinyurl.com/347kkok We describe three essential elements of an effective post-2012 international global climate policy architecture: a means to ensure that key industrialized and developing nations are involved in differentiated but meaningful ways; an emphasis on … Continue reading »
