Policy Development Tools

 

Current Policies & Programs

 

Taxes

 

Alternative Energy & Energy Efficiency

 

Waste Management/Pollution

 

Policy Development Tools

1. Environmental Policy Tools: A User's Guide, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, 1995 (PDF, 224 pg).
2. 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
3. Competitiveness and Climate Policy: Avoiding Leakage of Jobs and Emissions, Hearing before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, March 18, 2009

4. 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. (Very technical and in-depth).

5. 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
6. 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.
7. Climate Change: Expert Opinion on the Economics of Policy Options to Address Climate Change, GAO Report GAO-08-605 May 9, 2008

             Includes expert testimony on market-based approaches to addressing pollution from Industry.

8. 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)

Current Policies & Programs

1. *Energy Policy Act of 2005, (.pdf), U.S. House of Representatives
2. ExpectMore.gov, U.S. Office of Management and Budget. Find performance reviews of Federal government programs by program area or agency.
3. "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

4. How CBO estimates the costs of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. U.S. Congressional Budget Office. 2009. (PDF)
   

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

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. Fuel & Feedstock Flexibility, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Dept. of Energy
4. Clean Coal Demonstrations, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy

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. *Municipal Solid Waste in the United States, EPA, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
3. Review of Industrial Waste Exchanges, (.pdf), EPA, Waste Minimization Branch (1994)