Most of the print resources in this handout are located in the Government Publications reference area in McHenry Library and are Library Use Only.

Policy Tools

 

Taxes

 

Alternative Energy & Energy Efficiency

 

Recycling

 

Waste Management/Pollution

 

Policy Tools

1. $Project XL: Directory of Regulatory, Policy, and Technology Innovations, 2000 Comprehensive Report, Vol. 1, (.pdf), EPA
2. Environmental Policy Tools, (.pdf), U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment (1995)
3. *Green Dividends? The relationship between firms' environmental performance and financial performance, (.pdf), EPA, Office of Cooperative Environmental Management (2000)
4. *Regulatory Reform of the U.S. Manufacturing Sector, (.pdf), Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget (2005)
5. *Energy Policy Act of 2005, (.pdf), U.S. House of Representatives
6. *Impacts: Office of Industrial Technologies Summary of Program Results, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 1999
7. "The impact of federal energy efficiency and renewable energy R&D programs . . ." (May 19, 2004)- hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy, Committee on Science, House of Representatives
8. Policy options for greenhouse gas mitigation in California : preliminary results from a new social accounting matrix and computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, prepared for California Energy Commission, Public Interest Energy Research Program ; prepared by University of California, Berkeley, 2008
9. A description and comparison of selected forest carbon registries: a guide for states considering the development of a forest carbon registry, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station, 2007
10. Competitiveness and Climate Policy: Avoiding Leakage of Jobs and Emissions, Hearing before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, March 18, 2009
11. A REVIEW OF BENEFIT/COST AND OTHER DECISION ANALYSES ASSOCIATED WITH ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATORY PROGRAMS (Pt.1 and Pt. 2), M.CUBED. Funded by Cal/EPA. 1994.
12. Strategies to Promote Commercialization & Deployment of GHG Intensity-Reducing Technologies&Practices, Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration, U.S. Climate Change Technology Program, Jan. 2009
13. Final staff report for the 110th Congress..., House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, 2008
    1. Includes discussion on cap-and-invest programs, development of carbon capture, etc.

   14.  Climate Change: Expert Opinion on the Economics of Policy Options to Address Climate Change, GAO Report GAO-08-605 May 9, 2008 at     http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-08-605  Includes expert testimony on market-based approaches to addressing pollution from Industry.

Taxes

1. *Environmental Protection: Implications of using pollution taxes to supplement regulation, (.pdf), U.S. General Accounting Office (1993)
2. *End-Use Taxes: Current EIA Practices, (.pdf), U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration (1994)
3. Encyclopedia of Energy Technology & the Environment, (Attilio Bisio & Sharon Boots, eds.), New York: Wiley, 1997.
   • Class hold shelf, 2 volumes. (Ref TJ 163.235 E53 1997)

4. Tax Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Congressional Brief Series, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Nov. 2008. (PDF)

5. Cap and Trade v Taxes, Congressional Brief Series, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, March 2009 (2pg, PDF)

Alternative Energy

1. Industrial Energy Efficiency, (.pdf), U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment (1993)
2. Save Energy Now: Case Studies, U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
3. Voluntary Agreements for Energy Efficiency or GHG Emissions Reduction in Industry: An Assessment of Programs Around the World, Lynn Price, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Apr. 2005 (PDF)
4. Fuel & Feedstock Flexibility, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Dept. of Energy
5. Clean Coal Demonstrations, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy

Recycling

1. *Municipal Solid Waste in the United States, EPA, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response

Waste Management/Pollution

1. Managing Industrial Solid Wastes: from Manufacturing, mining, oil and gas production, and utility coal combustion, (.pdf), U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment (1992)
2. Review of Industrial Waste Exchanges, (.pdf), EPA, Waste Minimization Branch (1994)
3. *Municipal Solid Waste in the United States, EPA, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
4. *Feasibility Study on the Expanded Use of Agricultural and Forest Waste in Commercial Products, (.doc or html), California EPA, Integrated Waste Management Board (1999)
5. $Green Chemistry: Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge, U.S. EPA, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxins (1996-present)
6. Chairman's Air Pollution Seminar Series, California Air Resources Board, presentations from 2001 to present