Center for American Progress / Kate Gordon, Julian Wong, and J.T. McLain http://tinyurl.com/36dusdl As the United States debates comprehensive clean-energy legislation, it is confronted with a simple choice: come to the table and feast on the enormous economic opportunity that comes with reducing global warming pollution or be an item on the menu as our … Continue reading »
Posted on July 23, 2010 …
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States Using Existing Federal Authorities and State Action
World Resources Institute / Nicholas M. Bianco and Franz T. Litz with Madeline Gottlieb and Thomas Damassa http://tinyurl.com/3xdsgac [From Introduction and Key Findings] As the U.S. Congress has struggled to pass comprehensive climate change legislation, observers in the United States and abroad have asked what greenhouse gas emissions reductions are possible under existing federal laws … Continue reading »
U.S. Agriculture and Climate Change Legislation : Markets, Myths and Opportunities
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change / by Jessica Shipley, Sara Hessenflow-Harper and Laura Sands http://www.pewclimate.org/node/7816 Any climate and energy legislation will impact U.S. farmers and ranchers, and the agriculture sector has many legitimate concerns about specific effects such legislation. This paper objectively assesses the impacts of climate legislation on agriculture and identifies ways … Continue reading »
Revisiting the NAFTA Agenda on Climate Change
Peterson Institute for International Economics / by Jeffrey J. Schott and Meera Fickling www.iie.com/publications/interstitial.cfm?ResearchID=1628 The three NAFTA signatories have a shared interest in harmonizing climate policy, and while they have made steps in that direction, there is still much that can be done to promote renewable energy development and capacity building on climate change. This … Continue reading »
EPA Analysis of Alternative SO2 and NOx Caps for Senator Carper July 16, 2010
US EPA EPA Analysis of Alt SO2 and NO2 Caps (click link) [From E&E Daily story by Gabriel Nelson, subscription required] The benefits of a bill that would reduce conventional air pollution from coal-fired power plants would “greatly outweigh the cost,” according to U.S. EPA, possibly boosting chances to fold the measure into a comprehensive … Continue reading »
Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change
National Research Council www.nap.edu/catalog/12784.html [From description] Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change, a volume in the America’s Climate Choices series, describes and assesses different activities, products, strategies, and tools for informing decision makers about climate change and helping them plan and execute effective, integrated responses. It discusses who is making decisions (on the local, … Continue reading »
The Economic Impacts of the Marcellus Shale: Implications for New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia
American Petroleum Institute / by Timothy J. Considine http://tinyurl.com/3aepocq Natural gas production in the Marcellus Shale region—if developed—could create 280,000 new American jobs and add $6 billion in new tax revenues to local, state and federal governments over the next decade, a new study released today finds… The study, “The Economic Impacts of the Marcellus … Continue reading »
National State of Good Repair Assessment 2010
Federal Transit Administration http://tinyurl.com/28nrfat [From overview] This 2010 National State of Good Repair Assessment evaluates the level of investment required to bring all U.S. transit assets – including the assets of all urbanized area and rural transit operators – to a state of good repair. The analysis presented here describes a current national SGR backlog … Continue reading »
Does Growth in Ethanol Production Result in Cropland Expansion?
See Acreage reports from the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1000 [Commentary from the Renewable Fuels Association: "USDA Report Punches Another Hole in Land Use Theory"] The amount of land dedicated to crops in the United States has dropped for the second straight year in 2010, according to a report released today by the U.S. … Continue reading »
