US EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics / by Andrew Manale, Cynthia Morgan, Glenn Sheriff, and David Simpson http://yosemite.epa.gov/EE/epa/eed.nsf/WPNumber/2011-05?OpenDocument [Abstract] Considerable interest has been expressed recently in prospects for water quality trading markets between nutrient sources in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Allowing such flexibility in response to the terms of recently announced total maximum daily … Continue reading »
Posted on September 2, 2011 …
A Field-Based Aquatic Life Benchmark for Conductivity in Central Appalachian Streams
US EPA, National Center for Environmental Assessment http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/global/recordisplay.cfm?deid=231508 [Website] This report investigates the issues and challenges associated with identifying, calculating, and mapping indicators of the relative vulnerability of water quality and aquatic ecosystems, across the United States, to the potential impacts of global change. Using a large set of environmental indicators drawn from the scientific … Continue reading »
Preventing Disaster after a Disaster: Lessons for Canada from US Experience
Fraser Institute / by Neil Mohindra http://www.fraserinstitute.org/research-news/display.aspx?id=17957 [From Abstract] in addition to the hardships caused by property loss and injury, policyholders may face major impediments to recovery when insurance coverage from a natural disaster is split—a harsh lesson many Americans learned in 2005, after the US Gulf Coast was struck by a series of major … Continue reading »
Direct Federal Financial Interventions and Subsidies in Energy in Fiscal Year 2010
US DOE, Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/subsidy/pdf/subsidy.pdf [CNSnews.com Post] In addition to the 2009 economic stimulus law which, among other things, created financial incentives for clean energy, a new report by the Department of Energy shows that direct federal subsidies to alternative energy increased 186.6 percent between 2007 and 2010, up from $5.1 billion to $14.6 … Continue reading »
Economics Professors’ Favorite Economic Thinkers, Journals, and Blogs (along with Party and Policy Views)
Econ Journal Watch http://econjwatch.org/file_download/487/DavisMay2011.pdf [From an InFoDocket Post] We sent a survey to economics professors through out the United States, and 299 returned a completed survey. The survey asked about favorites in the following areas: economic thinkers who wrote prior to the twentieth century of the twentieth century, now deceased alive today age 60 or … Continue reading »
Migration and Climate Change: The Mexican Case
BBVA Bancomer / by Adolfo Albo and Juan Luis Ordaz Díaz http://bit.ly/rjbBmS [GreenBiz.com Post] Climate Change Driving Mexican Migration to U.S.? A Spanish banking group recently released a report linking climate change to Mexican migration to the U.S. According to a study from BBVA, environmental effects from climate change, such as soil erosion and changing … Continue reading »
