Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use

National Academy Press
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12794
[Press release]  A report just released by the National Academies of Science estimates the “hidden” costs of energy production and use. These costs, which include human health effects, physical damages to buildings and other structures, and reduction in grain crop harvests caused by air pollution are not reflected in market prices of coal, [...]

European Community Emission Inventory Report 1990-2007 Under the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP)

European Environment Agency
http://tiny.cc/AKYT7
[From executive summary] Under the LRTAP Convention, Parties (including the European Community) are obliged to report emissions data for a number of air pollutants, including sulphur oxides (SOX), nitrogen oxides (NOX), non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs), ammonia (NH3), carbon monoxide (CO), primary particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), heavy metals (HMs) and persistent organic [...]

Air Pollution : Air Quality and Permitting of New Coal-Burning, Electricity-Generating Units in Central Texas

General Accountability Office
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09787r.pdf

Methodology for Distributional Benefit Analysis of a National Air Quality Rule

National Center for Environmental Economics, US EPA / Prepared by Ellen Post, Don McCubbin, Anna Belova, Jin Huang and Nate Frey, Abt Associates
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eerm.nsf/vwND/14AAA71E512918FE852575A9004C2A54
[Summary] “Environmental Justice” (EJ) has become a pressing social, scientific and political issue over the last decade. The 1994 Executive Order 12898, Federal Action to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income [...]

U.S.-China Memorandum of Understanding to Enhance Cooperation on Climate Change, Energy and the Environment

US Dept. of State
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/126802.pdf
This Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. and China provides for both countries to pursue areas of cooperation where joint expertise, resources, research capacity and combined market size can accelerate progress towards mutual goals. These include, but are not limited to:
1) Energy conservation and energy efficiency
2) Renewable energy
3) Cleaner uses of coal, [...]

Clean Air Act : Preliminary Observations on the Effectiveness and Costs of Mercury Control Technologies at Coal-Fired Power Plants

Government Accountability Office / Statement of John B. Stephenson, Director Natural Resources and Environment
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09860t.pdf
[Summary] The 491 U.S. coal-fired power plants are the largest unregulated industrial source of mercury emissions nationwide, annually emitting about 48 tons of mercury—a toxic element that poses health threats, including neurological disorders in children. In 2000, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [...]

Air Pollution : Air Quality, Visibility, and the Potential Impacts of Coal-Fired Power Plants on Great Basin National Park

General Accountability Office
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09788r.pdf
[Excerpt] This report responds to a congressional directive in the Joint Explanatory Statement accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2008. The report describes (1) current air quality and visibility in and around Great Basin National Park and (2) stakeholders’ views about the potential impacts of the proposed coalfired power plants on [...]

Climate Change : Potential Regulation of Stationary Greenhouse Gas Sources Under the Clean Air Act

Congressional Research Service
http://opencrs.com/document/R40585/
[Summary] In the 111th Congress, both the House and Senate committees of jurisdiction are expected to give climate change legislation high priority. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has already held hearings on draft legislation, and expects to hold markup before Memorial Day. The schedule for Senate action is less certain, [...]

Cars and Climate: What Can EPA Do to Control Greenhouse Gases from Mobile Sources?

Congressional Research Service
http://opencrs.com/document/R40506/
[Summary] As Congress considers legislation to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that contribute to climate change, attention has focused on cap-and-trade legislation. Such legislation would set a national cap on GHG emissions, with allowances (permits) to emit limited amounts of the gases distributed or auctioned to affected parties. Recently, there has also [...]

2002 National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment

EPA, Technology Transfer Network
http://www.epa.gov/nata2002/
“The EPA has just released the results of its 2002 national-scale assessment of air toxics emissions (NATA). The purpose of the national-scale assessment is to identify and prioritize air toxics, emission source types and locations which are of greatest potential concern in terms of contributing to population risk. EPA uses the results [...]