M.J. Bradley & Associates, LLC and Analysis Group / Michael J. Bradley, Susan F. Tierney, Christopher E. Van Atten, Paul J. Hibbard, Amlan Saha, and Carrie Jenks http://tinyurl.com/23nm4v5 [From Executive Summary] In the 20 years since the Clean Air Act (“CAA”) Amendments of 1990, electric power companies throughout the United States have deployed a wide … Continue reading »
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The “Social Cost of Carbon” Made Simple
US EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics / by Steve Newbold, Charles Griffiths, Christopher C. Moore, Ann Wolverton, and Elizabeth Kopits http://yosemite.epa.gov/EE/epa/eed.nsf/WPNumber/2010-07?OpenDocument The “social cost of carbon” (SCC) is the present value of the future stream of damages from one additional ton of carbon emissions in a particular year. This paper develops a simple model … Continue reading »
Appliance Energy Efficiency Labels and Standards
Chapter from the UN Environment Programme Handbook for Drafting Law on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy by David Hodas http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1647189 Refrigerators, computers, clothes washers and dryers, air conditioners, office equipment, and heating consume huge amounts of electricity. Although energy growth varies considerably among nations and economic sectors, every nation should improve the energy efficiency of … Continue reading »
Preliminary NPRI Tailings and Waste Rock Data for 2006-2009
Environment Canada / National Pollutant Release Inventory http://www.ec.gc.ca/inrp-npri/default.asp?lang=en&n=CE124285-1 Environment Canada, the Canadian environmental regulatory agency, has added data on tailings (a common byproduct of oil sands extraction) and waste rock to its national pollution database, the National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI). The NPRI database collects pollutant releases from industrial and non-industrial sources to track toxic … Continue reading »
Electronic Waste: Considerations for Promoting Environmentally Sound Reuse and Recycling
Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/pdfs/GAO-10-626?source=ra Low recycling rates for used televisions, computers, and other electronics result in the loss of valuable resources, and electronic waste exports risk harming human health and the environment in countries that lack safe recycling and disposal capacity. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates the management of used electronics that qualify as … Continue reading »
Assessing the Effects of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill on Human Health: A Summary of the June 2010 Workshop
National Academy Press http://tinyurl.com/289l5ve The 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is unique in its magnitude, its duration, and in the complexity of its assessment. From the origin of the leak, to the amount of oil released into the environment, to the spill’s duration and ongoing nature, the Gulf oil spill poses unique challenges to … Continue reading »
