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Proposed American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009
The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 would have created a national green bank. It passed the House but failed in the Senate.
EDF/RFF Report, Enabling Fairness for Energy Workers and Communities in Transition
A March 2021 report from the Environmental Defense Fund and Resources for the Future compiles findings from a series of reports that unpack existing US and European policies related to just transition...
LPDD Model Law: Protected Avian Species Permitting
Electric infrastructure that is critical to achieving a net zero economy may impact federally protected avian species. To encourage construction of this infrastructure, project developers prefer certa...
Proposed Environmental Justice for All Act (2020)
This proposed 2020 federal bill establishes an Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice Compliance and Enforcement to help identify and address the disproportionate burden federal actions ha...
Report, Global Tree Cover and Biomass Carbon on Agricultural Land
Zomer et al.’s 2016 report in Nature examines the contributions of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets.
IRENA report, Nurturing Offshore Wind Markets
IRENA’s 2017 report, Nurturing Offshore Wind Markets, emphasizes international standardization of offshore wind regulation in order to harmonize requirements and enable global scale-up of offshore win...
Proposed Energy Storage Promotion and Deployment Act of 2015
Under the proposed Energy Storage Promotion and Deployment Act of 2015, large retail electric utilities would have needed to meet at least 1 percent of their peak demand from storage by 2021. By the e...
Energy Policy Act of 2005
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 provides a useful model for how Congress or states might overcome local governments obstructing the development of renewable energy facilities. Its provisions on the siti...
Proposed Agriculture Resilience Act (2020)
The proposed Agriculture Resilience Act of 2020 would set a target of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in U.S. agriculture by the year 2040. It would pursue this target by: Increasing Resear...
Proposed Energy Storage for Grid Resilience and Modernization Act of 2016
The proposed Energy Storage for Grid Resilience and Modernization Act of 2016 would have given a 30% tax credit to energy storage, equivalent to renewable energy tax support.
Report, Nitrogen Management Project Protocol
The Climate Action Reserve’s Nitrogen Management Project Protocol provides guidance on how to quantify, monitor, and verify greenhouse gas emission reductions from improving nitrogen use efficiency in...
Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014
The Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 established budgetary penalties against the Army Corps of Engineers for failing to meet deadlines established in a centralized permitting schedul...
Report, Optimal environmental border adjustments under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Iowa State University’s Economics Dept. authored a 2018 paper, Optimal environmental border adjustments under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, arguing that border adjustments should be pric...
Proposed Clean Energy Innovation and Deployment Act of 2020
This proposed 2020 Congressional legislation: Would provide financial support for RD&D into long-term energy storage and carbon storage infrastructure, among other things. Would enact a federal Clean ...
Congressional Research Service Report, CO2 Pipelines for Carbon Sequestration
The Congressional Research Service’s 2008 report surveyed potential future CCS scenarios associated with decarbonizing the electric sector and determined that a dedicated interstate pipeline network w...
CORSIA
In 2016, ICAO adopted the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), under which it aims to ensure any rise in international aviation emissions above 2020 levels are a...
LPDD Model Law: Reduction of Arctic Shipping Emissions that Lead to Warming Act
As new shipping lanes emerge in the Arctic, concerns over the use of Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) as a fuel source in Arctic waters compound — particularly insofar as HFO emissions cause local black carbon po...
American Reinvestment and Recovery Act CCS funding
The 2009 American Reinvestment and Recovery Act included $800 million for CCS technology for coal-fired plants, $1.52 billion for industrial CCS projects, and $1 billion for a stand-alone integrated p...
Biomass Research and Development Act
The Biomass Research and Development Act of 2000 created funding streams for biomass R&D through the Depts. of Energy and Agriculture. It was amended in 2008 through the Food Conservation and Energy A...
Report, Effect of subsidies to fossil fuel companies on United States crude oil production
A 2017 study in Nature Energy finds that, at recent oil prices of $50 per barrel, tax subsidies push nearly half of new, yet-to-be-developed oil investments into profitability, potentially increasing ...
LPDD Model Law: Amending CZMA to Facilitate Offshore Renewables Permitting
This model document proposes potential amendments to the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to facilitate the permitting of offshore renewable energy facilities. The first part of the document provid...
Report, Building a Foundation for Sustainable Infrastructure
This 2020 report from the Institute for Policy Integrity surveys the risks of climate change and challenges to US infrastructure development. It argues that, given the enormous magnitude and diversity...
Report, Build Clean: Industrial Policy for Climate and Justice
This 2020 ClimateWorks report highlights a path to achieve net-zero GHG emissions by 2050 within the industrial sector, focusing on four pillars of action. Recommended courses of action include levera...
Report, The Economic Case for Greening the Global Recovery through Cities: 7 priorities for national governments
Cities have been at the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic, but they also offer an opportunity to accelerate the transition to a resilient, equitable and low-carbon future. This paper explores seven p...
Report, The Potential Role of Biohydrogen in Creating a Net Zero World
This January 2023 report from the Columbia SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy offers a technical analysis of the emerging applications for biohydrogen (or Bio-H2, hydrogen produced from organic waste...
Report, Vision for Equitable Climate Action
The Vision for Equitable Climate Action (VECA) is a comprehensive vision for tackling the climate crisis drafted by members of the USCAN Equitable and Ambitious Climate Vision Action Team. Over nearly...
EPRI Report, Creating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Offsets by Reducing Nitrous Oxide Emissions in Agricultural Crop Production
EPRI’s 2013 report sought to define a scientifically robust, straightforward, readily implementable, and widely adoptable N2O emissions reduction offsets methodology that can be used by farmers to cre...
WRI report, Putting a Price on Carbon
World Resources Institute’s 2016 report, Putting a Price on Carbon, is a comprehensive reference guide to the design features, revenue options and economic consequences from different approaches to pr...
Industry Chapter in IPCC Fifth Assessment Report
The Industry Chapter in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report surveys options in the food processing sector, calling attention to a variety of mitigation technology options, practices, and behavioral aspec...
Proposed Clean Energy Worker Just Transition Act of 2015
The proposed Clean Energy Worker Just Transition Act of 2015 would award temporary adjustment assistance to workers of adversely affected coal-related industries who are totally or partially separated...
2017’s proposed Keep It In the Ground Act
2017’s proposed Keep It In the Ground Act would have amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit BOEM from authorizing the exploration or production of oil, natural gas, or any other fos...
Proposed SEA FUEL Act of 2019
The proposed SEA FUEL Act of 2019 would require DOD to develop a two-phased research, development, demonstration and subsequent testing program for direct air capture and blue carbon removal technolog...
LPDD Model Law: Federal Hydrogen Refueling Station Funding Act
The lack of infrastructure for out-of-state travel is a major impediment to the adoption of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (HFCVs), and there is a need to increase the number of hydrogen fueling stations...
The Inflation Reduction Act
New: The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund are announcing the launch of an additional resource on the Inflation Reduction Act Tracker website: the IRA litigation case ...
Proposal for a Frequent Flyer Levy
Fellow Travelers’ Proposal for a Frequent Flyer Levy suggested a taxation scheme in the UK whereby each citizen is granted one tax free return flight per year (for equity reasons), but frequent flyers...
Carbon Tracker Reports on Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells
A June 2020 report, It’s Closing Time, explains how the oil and gas industry is legally obligated to plug and abandon (P&A) wells, but it hasn’t set aside the resources to do so. The paper notes that ...
Energy Policy Act of 2005
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 authorized DOE to offer cash prizes of up to $10 million for “breakthrough achievements in research, development, demonstration, and commercial application” for energy-re...
The American Clean Energy and Security Act
The proposed American Clean Energy and Security Act (2009) would have included requirements that petroleum-based liquid fuel producers, including aviation fuel, buy carbon permits. The Boxer-Kerry Sen...
Proposed Wildfire Disaster Funding Act
The proposed Wildfire Disaster Funding Act would shift where the funds to fight wildfires would be taken from. Rather than coming from agency funds dedicated to forest management, under the Act, fight...
Report, Accelerating America’s Pledge
This 2019 report assesses what would be delivered from expanded actions by states, cities, businesses, and citizens and then layers on a robust, complementary, and ambitious federal policy program aft...
Report, An Introduction to Conservation Easements in the United States: A Simple Concept and Complicated Mosaic of Law
Cheever and McLaughlin’s 2015 article surveys the complex body of state and federal law that shapes the creation, funding, tax treatment, enforcement, modification, and termination of conservation eas...
Carbon Capture Coalition Federal Policy Blueprint
The Carbon Capture Coalition’s 2019 Federal Policy Blueprint makes recommendations for expanding the federal portfolio of CCS R&D projects.
Report, Climate Consequences of Low-Carbon Fuels
Hill et al.’s 2016 report, Climate Consequences of Low-Carbon Fuels: The United States Renewable Fuel Standard, offers insight on the economic rebound effect for global fossil fuel consumption in a sc...
Proposed Clean Energy Victory Bonds Act (2019)
This proposed 2019 legislation directs the Secretary of Treasury to work with the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of Defense to establish Clean Energy Victory Bonds. Bonds would be available to ...
Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development Transportation Discretionary Grant program
The Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) Transportation Discretionary Grant program, provides investment in road, rail, transit and port projects. Congress has dedicated nearly...
2024 Annual Decarbonization Perspective
This 2024 report from Evolved Energy Research provides an energy modeling analysis and evidence-based strategies for the United States to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. The report is released ann...
Great Plains Institute report, Opportunities to enable interstate coordination & cooperation in support of transmission infrastructure build-out in the Midwest
A 2011 Great Plain Institute report surveys key actions and policy mechanisms for supporting interstate coordination and cooperation to achieve transmission infrastructure, and includes model language...
Proposed Carbon Capture Modernization Act
The proposed Carbon Capture Modernization Act (2019) would correct design flaws in the 26 USC §48A CCS tax incentive program that have made it impossible for companies to access existing incentives to...
The International Sustainability and Carbon Certification Scheme
The ISCC is a multi-stakeholder initiative that provides two different certification schemes that cover biofuels: ISCC EU (compliant with EU requirements like the Renewable Energy Directive and the Fu...
Report, Using Regulation to Change the Market for Innovation
A classic 1985 article, Using Regulation to Change the Market for Innovation, argues that market pull can be stimulated by properly structured regulation. It presents a model of the effects of regulat...
Proposed Financing Our Energy Future Act of 2019
The proposed Financing Our Energy Future Act of 2019 concerns Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs). An MLP is taxed as a partnership but ownership interests are traded like corporate stock on a market. ...
LPDD Model Law: Arctic Shipping Tax Act
Unfortunately, thinning polar sea ice presents a significant commercial opportunity for the international shipping industry, as the opening of new Arctic routes has the potential to dramatically short...
Proposed Solar Energy Research and Development Act of 2019
The proposed Solar Energy Research and Development Act of 2019 directs DOE to carry out an RD&D program that improves the capacity, efficiency, reliability, security, and affordability of solar energy...
California Incentive Program for Biogas Interconnection Costs
The California PUC established an incentive program under which biogas facility owners may recover up to 50% of interconnection costs to a maximum amount of $1.5 million. The program was subsequently ...
Proposed USE IT Act
The proposed USE IT Act (S. 383 2019) would foster continued development and deployment of carbon capture by authorizing the EPA Administrator to coordinate with the Secretary of Energy on furthering ...
Report, Strategy, investment and policy for a strong and sustainable recovery: An action plan
This briefing paper, produced by the London School of Economic’s Centre for Economic Performance and Grantham Research Institute, sets out the key areas where strong economic policies and institutions...
Report, The Social Cost of Carbon in Taxes and Subisidies
Columbia’s Center of Global Energy Policy has published an analysis of recent efforts to use the SCC as a direct value for taxes and subsidies applied to economic activity with a negative or positive ...
Columbia’s Near-Term to Net Zero Carbon Pricing Approach
The social cost of carbon (SCC) is commonly described and used as the optimal CO2 price. However, the wide range of SCC estimates provides limited practical assistance to policymakers setting specific...
IEA report, Flexible hydropower providing value to renewable energy integration
IEA’s 2019 report, Flexible hydropower providing value to renewable energy integration, provides a global perspective on the need for flexibility to enable renewable integration and hydropower’s capab...
Proposed Green Bank Act of 2014
The proposed Green Bank Act of 2014 (HR 4522) would have established a Green Bank as a federally-owned independent corporation with a 20-year charter. It would have authorized an initial capitalizatio...
Telecommunications Act of 1996
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 provides a useful model for how Congress or states might overcome local governments obstructing the development of renewable energy facilities. It imposed constraint...
Report, Long Term Liability for Carbon Capture and Storage in Depleted North American Oil and Gas Reservoirs
Ingelson et al.’s 2011 report surveys government efforts to manage long-term liability from carbon sequestration projects. It recommends a pooling approach to the management of remediation and reclama...
National Academies Papers on the Cost of Carbon
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine published a 2016 Assessment of Approach to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon (downloadable with free account), the lead measure by which f...
Report of the Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage
The Report of the Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage assesses the status of CCS technologies, current barriers to deployment, regulatory frameworks at the state and federal levels, a...
Clean Air Act § 213
See CAA 213, 42 USC 7547 for relevant sections of the CAA allowing EPA to set emissions standards for new locomotives, including subsection (a)(5) exempting locomotives from the endangerment finding p...
Report, A Minilateral Solution for Global Climate Change
The London School of Economics’ 2016 paper, A Minilateral Solution for Global Climate Change, assesses the strength of limited “climate clubs” among progressive nations, arguing that they can enhance ...
CAA §110 Authorising SIP In-Use Requirements
The Clean Air Act authorizes state implementation plans to include indirect source regulations, as well as provisions designed to reduce emissions from mobile source use. In-use regulations include ca...
Expired Federal EE Tax Credits
Several federal tax credits for energy efficiency were allowed to expire recently, including Sec. 25C Nonbusiness Energy Property Credit for Existing Homes, the Sec. 45L Energy Efficient Home Credit, ...
National Academies Report, Accelerating Decarbonization of the US Energy System
According to a 2021 report from the National Academies of Sciences, the United States could achieve net-zero carbon pollution by 2050, address societal inequities, and reap benefits far greater than t...
Energy Policy Act of 2005
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 established a program to support the expansion of hydropower at existing dams and impoundments through incentive payments. Congress funded this program in 2014 and 2016. ...
Report, A Critical Minerals Policy for the United States
In June 2023, the Aspen Institute Energy & Environment Program released a comprehensive report on securing a resilient critical mineral supply chain for the United States, which is essential for a wid...
Proposed American Miners Act of 2019
The proposed American Miners Act of 2019 would transfer certain funds to provide pension and health benefits for retired coal miners who have been affected by issues such as coal company bankruptcies.
Report, Putting the Puzzle Together: State and Federal Policy Drivers for Growing America’s Carbon Capture and CO2-EOR Industry
The Great Plains Institute, working with a task force including the state executives of Montana and Wyoming, published a 2016 report recommending a targeted package of federal incentives for CCS, whic...
Report, Green Stimulus for Oil and Gas Workers: Considering a Major Federal Effort to Plug Orphaned and Abandoned Wells
Resources for the Future and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs authored this 2020 report examining the potential to boost US employment in the oil and gas workforce whil...
From Risk to Return: Investing in a Clean Energy Economy
Risky Business’ 2016 report considers a large-scale shift away from ongoing spending on fossil fuels and toward up-front capital investments in clean energy technologies, consistent with reducing gree...
RFI report, Environmental Taxation
Resources for the Future’s 2016 discussion paper, Environmental Taxation, examines potential environmental tax policy reforms, focusing primarily on a carbon tax. The paper draws on recent theoretical...
Report, A Global Vision and Strategy for Organic Farming and Research
The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movement’s 2016 report describes a 17‐point action plan to advance organic agriculture through research, development, innovation and technology tran...
Report, Building electrification: Steps to start now amid an uncertain future
This 2021 report from ICF explores topics related to building electrification and how the existing energy landscape in different jurisdictions presents a variegated set of policy choices. Topics cover...
Report, Designing an Effective Regulatory Structure for CO2 Pipelines
Monast’s 2008 report, From Carbon Capture to Storage: Designing an Effective Regulatory Structure for CO2 Pipelines, provides an overview of the federal pipeline regulatory structure and the challenge...
LPDD Model Law: Federal or State Carbon Labeling Act
Carbon footprint product labels could influence consumers to make environmentally friendly choices without substantial effort on their part, by providing more information than the consumer has at pres...
Title VI of the Clean Air Act and NRER Program
Title VI of the Clean Air Act represents the primary regulatory authority to control HFCs, which includes the commitments in the Montreal Protocol. Title VI requires EPA to develop programs that prote...
ITIF report, An Innovation Agenda for Deep Decarbonization
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation report, An Innovation Agenda for Deep Decarbonization, diagnoses the limits of the current clean energy innovation agenda and identifies sectors an...
Pipeline Safety Act
The federal Pipeline Safety Act gives the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration broad authority to adopt regulations, prescribing minimum standards for the construction, operation, an...
Report, A Survey of Key Technological Innovations for the Low Carbon Economy
The Grantham Institute’s report, A Survey of Key Technological Innovations for the Low Carbon Economy, summarizes the main technological innovation priorities required to achieve deep decarbonization....
Report, Reforming the Renewable Fuel Standard
Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy published a 2018 report, Reforming the Renewable Fuel Standard, which recommended sharply reducing the compliance costs of blending ethanol into E10; promotin...
LPDD Model Law: Federal Statute Providing Tax Credits for Hydrogen Refueling Stations
The lack of infrastructure for out-of-state travel is a major impediment to the adoption of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (HFCVs), and there is a need to increase the number of hydrogen fueling stations...
Proposed Clean Energy Standard Act of 2019
The proposed Clean Energy Standard Act of 2019 would establish the federal Clean Energy Standard and a CES credit trading market, incentivize development and deployment of zero-emission technologies, ...
LPDD Model Law: Authorizing Joint Reviews Under NEPA and ESA
Environmental review and permitting of electric infrastructure—including renewable power generation facilities, electric transmission and distribution infrastructure, and electric storage facilities—i...
Brookings Institute report, A U.S. Cap-and-Trade System to Address Global Climate Change
A U.S. Cap-and-Trade System to Address Global Climate Change proposes a specific cap-and-trade system with several key features including: an upstream cap on CO2 emissions with gradual inclusion of ot...
Proposed American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009
The proposed American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (“Waxman-Markey”) would have included a form of border carbon adjustment at Section 401 of Part IV of the bill. The proposed adjustment meas...
LPDD Model Law: Evaluating Beneficial Impacts Under NEPA
Under current law, the potential benefits of projects necessary to achieve a decarbonized economy may not be fully disclosed in the NEPA process. NEPA is the process through which agencies consider th...
LPDD Model Law: Federal Fossil Fuels Leasing Reform Act
The U.S. Geological Survey determined in 2018 that fossil fuel production from the public lands and Outer Continental Shelf of the United States accounted for nearly 24 percent of U.S. contributions t...
2017’s Proposed HR 3043
2017’s proposed HR 3043, the Hydropower Policy Modernization Act, would have directed FERC to consider the significant investment of project upgrades and improvements when establishing the new license...
Proposed Repairing Existing Public Land by Adding Necessary Trees Act
The proposed Repairing Existing Public Land by Adding Necessary Trees Act (2021) would lift the $30 million annual cap on funds that may be drawn from the federal Reforestation Trust Fund. If enacted,...
Report, Innovation and Climate Policy
David Popps 2010 report, Innovation and Climate Policy, reviews the literature on environmental innovation and diffusion, with a focus on studies relevant to the development of clean energy technologi...
Proposed Zero Waste Act of 2019
A proposed grant funding program for organics recycling infrastructure, e-waste, source reduction, and market development.
Report, Options for Reforming the Renewable Fuel Standard
The Bipartisan Policy Center released a 2014 report, Options for Reforming the Renewable Fuel Standard, which addressed how to solve for uncertainty in annual mandated biofuel volumes, as well as vola...
Cash for Clunkers
The national Car Allowance Rebate System (“Cash for Clunkers”) authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided consumers a voucher for trading in an older and less fuel-efficient ...
Model Environmental Heads of Terms
Heads of Terms for a commercial transaction are preliminary terms that drive many of the workflows and set the tone and spirit of a negotiation. The Chancery Lane Project, a collaborative effort of UK...
Report, Opportunities for Reducing CO2 in European Industry
The Alliance for Global Sustainability published a 2012 report, Opportunities for Reducing CO2 in European Industry. The report serves as an ex-post analysis of other research studies in a series, whi...
LPDD Model Law: Amendments to Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships
Note: The proposed Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act (2020), released just a month following the release of this model law, overlaps in scope with this model legislation, in terms of imposing monitori...
Proposed American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009
The proposed American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009 would have replaced state transmission siting altogether with regional siting entities operating in conjunction with the Department of the Int...
Pathways to 2050: Alternative Scenarios for Decarbonizing the US Economy
C2ES’s 2019 report is the culmination of a collaborative exercise including a group of companies examining potential scenarios for achieving mid-century decarbonization goals. This scenario exercise a...
LPDD Model Law: Removal of Favorable Tax Treatment for Coal
The attached model bill and supporting memorandum propose amendments to the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate favorable treatment of coal mining and production, as recommended in Chapter 4 of the LPD...
Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act
The Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act (2018) calls for a cost-sharing grant program to help advanced reactors pay for the lengthy licensing process.
Report, Advancing Carbon Sequestration Research in an Uncertain Legal and Regulatory Environment
Hart’s 2009 report recommends the federal government adopt policies that provide a legal framework that supports CCS research, specifically a shield from property-related and long-term liabilities ass...
Senate Democrats Report, Case for Climate Action
In August 2020, Senate Democrats on Tuesday released a report laying out policy recommendations Congress should adopt in order to bring the U.S. to a net-zero carbon economy by 2050. The report, relea...
Transportation Electrification Partnership Federal Stimulus Proposal
The Transportation Electrification Partnership has published a $150 billion federal stimulus proposal, urging Congress to make investments in the nation’s transportation infrastructure in direct respo...
Report, Rewiring America
Saul Griffith’s 2020 report seeks to answer how to effectively decarbonize the US economy by 2035 without forcing Americans to sacrifice their current lifestyles and without having to invent any new t...
Proposed carbon pricing bills in US Congress
A variety of carbon pricing bills circulated through the US Congress in 2019 and 2020. They are linked and summarized here. The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 2019 (HR 763) places a pric...
Report, Designing Border Carbon Adjustments for Enhanced Climate Action
Climate Strategies’ 2017 paper, Designing Border Carbon Adjustments for Enhanced Climate Action, reviews past border carbon adjustment proposals and offers design principals and recommendations on que...
Proposed STORAGE 2013 Act
The proposed STORAGE 2013 Act would have given storage systems a 20 percent investment tax credit for systems above 1-MW/1-MHw and a 30 percent tax credit for smaller 1-kw/5-kWh systems.
Enhanced Tax Deduction for Conservation Easements
In 2015, Congress permanently extended an enhanced tax deduction for landowners donating a conservation easement to a land trust or government agency. The enhanced deduction allows famers and ranchers...
Report, Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration.
This 2019 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine outlines a research agenda for carbon sequestration, including a chapter on changes in agricultural practices that e...
Report, Forest Management Solutions for Mitigating Climate Change in the US
Malmsheimer et al.’s 2008 report provides a survey of carbon benefits from wood substitution, biomass substitution, wildfire behavior modification, and avoided land use change. The report details how ...
Renewable Biomass Restrictions under the Renewable Fuel Standard
Under the federal Renewable Fuel Standard, Congress has directed EPA to exclude crops “harvested from land cleared or cultivated” after December 19, 2007 from its definition of “renewable biomass.” Th...
LPDD Model Law: Federal Income Tax Credit Legislation For Purchasing Used Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Some studies suggest that AFVs depreciate faster than internal combustion vehicles. Two main reasons AFVs depreciate faster than internal combustion vehicles are (i) the rapid pace that technology is ...
OECD report, United States Self-Review of Fossil Fuel Subsidies
The U.S.’s 2015 report to the OECD catalogs producer and consumer subsidies for fossil fuels and argues that fossil fuel subsidies in the U.S. amount to roughly $8.7 billion. These estimates are lower...
Report, Build a Better Future for Coal Workers and Their Communities
The Brookings Institute’s 2016 report, Build a Better Future for Coal Workers and Their Communities, reviews the challenges facing the coal workforce and the case for significant federal investment in...
Proposed Nuclear Energy Leadership Act of 2018
The proposed Nuclear Energy Leadership Act of 2018 would have included enhanced federal investment in the nuclear industry, establishing facilities to test and develop advanced nuclear reactors and to...
Report, Expanding Natural Gas Pipeline Infrastructure
The Keystone Center’s 2002 report, Expanding Natural Gas Infrastructure to Meet the Growing Demand for Cleaner Power, lists recommendations of the Pipeline Siting Work Group of the Interstate Oil and ...
Report, Opportunities for Reducing CO2 in European Industry
The Alliance for Global Sustainability published a 2012 report, Opportunities for Reducing CO2 in European Industry. The report serves as an ex-post analysis of other research studies in a series, whi...
Report, International Standardization of Nuclear Reactor Designs
A 2010 World Nuclear Association report, International Standardization of Nuclear Reactor Designs, includes recommendations for how governments and regulators can encourage design standardization in n...
Proposed Off Fossil Fuels for a Better Future Act (H.R. 3671)
2018’s proposed H.R. 3671 would have amended several sections of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate subsidies aimed specifically at the fossil fuel industry.
The Roosevelt Project
The Roosevelt Project was launched in 2020 out of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research to provide an analytical basis for charting a path to a low carbon economy in a way that p...
ACEEE Report on Recommended EE Code Changes
ACEEE prepared a 2013 report on recommended changes to the tax code that includes ways to refine (previously existing) energy efficiency tax credits, removing tax disincentives to efficiency investmen...
Proposed Climate Equity Act (2020)
Proposed 2020 legislation would: Require relevant legislation receive an equity score that is both quantitative and qualitative to estimate the impact on frontline communities. This equity score would...
Proposed Green Bank Act of 2016
The proposed Green Bank Act of 2016 (HR 5802) would have established a U.S. Green Bank that provides financial support to assist regional, state, and local institutions finance clean energy or energy ...
Report, Sequestering Carbon Dioxide Undersea in the Atlantic: Legal Problems and Solutions
This 2018 report outlines the key legal requirements for injecting carbon dioxide into the seabed off the northeast coast of the U.S. It distinguishes the legal requirements for injections in “state w...
Telecommunications Act of 1996
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 provides a useful model for how Congress or states might overcome local governments obstructing the authorization of transmission. It imposed constraints on the appr...
Forest Legacy Program
The Forest Legacy Program enlists federal and state forestry agencies in preventing the conversion of private forestlands to non-forest uses, including through the establishment of conservation easeme...
EPA Underground Injection Control Program
The EPA’s UIC program regulates and clarifies the use of enhanced oil recovery wells for sequestration. The UIC program was established by the Safe Drinking Water Act, and its Class II and VI wells re...
Report, Energizing America
This 2020 report by the Columbia University SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy offers the incoming Biden administration and Congress a strategic framework to triple US annual investment in energy inn...
Long-Term Model-Based Projections for Energy Use and CO2 Emissions From Global Steel and Cement Industries
Van Ruijvan et al.’s 2016 report presents a global simulation-model for the steel and cement industries covering the full modelling chain from economic activity, to materials consumption, trade, techn...
EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement
The EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement incorporates provisions on environmental protection and sustainable development, including provisions addressing climate change mitigation.
Proposed America’s Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2019
The proposed America’s Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2019 would earmark $1 billion in funding for competitive grants to support the development of fueling infrastructure for electric, natural g...
Report, Improving Regulation of Gas Pipeline Leaks
Webb’s 2015 report, Safety First, Environment Last: Improving Regulation of Gas Pipeline Leaks, analyzes the current state and federal regulations with respect to leak detection, repair, and reporting...
ADVANCE Act
The Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy Act (“ADVANCE Act”) was passed by Congress in June 2024 as part of the Fire Grants and Safety Act. The ADVANCE Act aims to s...
Report, State of the Global Paper Industry
Chapter 6 of the global report specifically finds a need for the North American industry to modernize and implement cleaner technologies to match mill emission levels of mills in other regions.
LBNL report, Opportunities to Improve Energy Efficiency and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the US Pulp and Paper Industry
Lawrence Berkeley National Labs’ 2001 report examined over 45 commercially available state-of-the-art technologies and measures for improving energy efficiency and carbon dioxide emissions reductions ...
Report, A Review of the CO2 Pipeline Infrastructure in the US
DOE’s 2015 report summarizes current and potential expansions to the CO2 pipeline network in the US, and provides an overview of permitting, regulation, and policies at the federal and state levels.
Report, Technologies and policies to decarbonize global industry
Risman et al.’s 2020 research report, Technologies and policies to decarbonize global industry: Review and assessment of mitigation drivers through 2070, details the technologies and policies that can...
EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement contains a chapter on the environment that holds that a lack of full scientific evidence should not be a reason for not protecting the environm...
Report, Accelerating Job Growth and an Equitable Low-Carbon Energy Transition
This January 2021 report examines the potential of a federally authorized Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator. This new nonprofit corporation, which would catalyze but not compete with private...
Congressional Research Service report, Federal Crop Insurance Background
The Congressional Research Services 2015 report on the Federal Crop Insurance program outlines the program’s history, types of insurance, costs, and recent changes.
Report, Industrial Energy Use and Carbon Emissions Reduction: A UK Perspective
Griffin et al.’s report makes a detailed analysis of energy demand in the food and drink sector, focusing on steam demand, combined heat and power, heat pumps, decomposition analysis and demand reduct...
NREL Report, Electrification & Decarbonization
NREL’s 2017 report, Electrification & Decarbonization: Exploring U.S. Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Scenarios with Widespread Electrification and Power Sector Decarbonization, describes a...
Congressional Appropriations for Nuclear Energy Research
Congressional appropriations for fiscal year 2019 approved $1.33 billion in funding for DOE’s nuclear energy research, development and deployment programs, an increase of $121 million over fiscal 2018...
Proposed HR 8, the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015
Proposed HR 8, the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015, would have prescribed requirements for: (1) concurrent federal and state hydropower license application reviews, (2) i...
Report, Dirty Energy Dominance
Oil Change International’s 2017 report, Dirty Energy Dominance, catalogs federal and state fossil fuel subsidies, and identifies opportunities to eliminate them. Appendix 1 provides a complete list of...
Stanford Law paper, Dynamically Estimating the Distributional Impact of US Climate Policy with NEMs
A 2014 Stanford Law paper, Dynamically Estimating the Distributional Impact of US Climate Policy with NEMs, analyzes the Climate Protection Act of 2013, a fee-and-dividend policy, and estimates the di...
IPCC’s AR-5 Chapter 13
The IPCC’s AR-5 Chapter 13 provides an overview of climate agreements and instruments, including a discussion of game theory implications, multilateral and bilateral agreements, regional cooperation, ...
LPDD Model Law: Exempting Renewables on Brownfields from CERCLA Liability
This model legislation provides liability protections under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) for wind and solar energy developers on contaminated site...
Proposed Wind Energy Research and Development Act of 2019
The proposed Wind Energy Research and Development Act of 2019 requires the DOE to carry out a wind energy research, development, testing, evaluation, and demonstration program; reduce the cost and ris...
Proposed National Green Bank Act of 2019
The proposed National Green Bank Act of 2019 would establish a U.S. Green Bank to finance climate change mitigation and adaptation projects at the state and local level by capitalizing regional, state...
Proposed America’s Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2019
The proposed America’s Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2019 would direct federal agencies to transition their vehicle fleets to hybrid-electric, electric and alternative fuels within a year of en...
Proposed American Energy Efficiency Act of 2015
The proposed American Energy Efficiency Act of 2015 would have called for a 20% electricity savings and 13% natural gas savings by 2030, with annual added savings rising to 1.75% for electricity and 1...
Report, Powering the Future: An Inclusive National Clean Energy Standard with Negative Emissions Technologies
This May 2020 note from the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law puts forward the framework for a national Clean Energy Standard that can effectively incorporate negative emissions technologies while...
Proposed Methane Emissions Mitigation Act
2015’s proposed Methane Emissions Mitigation Act was aimed at supporting the development of new technologies to address natural gas pipeline leaks, providing $225 million for research on leak control ...
Report, The Role of Patent Protection in (Clean/Green) Technology Transfer
The Santa Clara High Technology Journal’s 2010 article, The Role of Patent Protection in (Clean/Green) Technology Transfer, reviews the evidence on the role of patents for innovation and the hurdles i...
Report, The critical role of the industrial sector in reaching long-term emission reduction, energy efficiency and renewable targets
Birgit Fais et al.’s 2016 report evaluates the critical contribution of the industry sector to long-term decarbonization, efficiency and renewable energy policy targets. Its findings for the chemical ...
Report, Best Practice Guidance for Effective Methane Management in the Oil and Gas Sector
Report, Best Practice Guidance for Effective Methane Management in the Oil and Gas Sector. The UN Economic Commission for Europe and the Global Methane Initiative published a 2019 report offering guid...
LPDD Model Law: CERCLA Liability Limitation for Renewable Energy and Carbon Capture
This model law would amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA” or “Superfund”), 42 U.S.C. § 9601-28, to limit liability for persons who own, operate, lea...
LPDD Model Law: Legislation Mandating Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Reduction as Part of Metropolitan Transportation Planning
Under federal law, states must establish a metropolitan planning organization (MPO) for each urban area with a population of at least 50,000. MPOs are subject to a variety of requirements, including t...
Proposed RECLAIM Act of 2017
The proposed RECLAIM Act of 2017 would provide $1 billion dollars over five years to restore abandoned coal mines to something like their natural state, while also scaling up economic diversification ...
Proposed Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act (2020)
Note: Elements of this proposed legislation overlap substantially with the LPDD Model Law, published Sept. 2020, Model Amendments to the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, which would require all sh...
Proposed Clean Renewable Energy and Economic Development Act of 2009
The proposed Clean Renewable Energy and Economic Development Act of 2009 would have allowed DOE to designate “national renewable energy zones,” based on locations that are capable of generating more t...
Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2013
The Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2013 (Public Law 113-23) increases from 5,000 to 10,000 kilowatts the size of small hydroelectric power projects which FERC may exempt from its license requ...
IATA voluntary efficiency goal
The International Air Transport Association set a voluntary goal in 2007 of improving efficiency by at least 25% by 2020 compared to 2005 levels, amounting to a 1.5% efficiency gain per year.
America’s Water Infrastructure Act
The America’s Water Infrastructure Act, among other things, requires expedited review and decision-making on proposed projects at non-powered dams.
The Partnership for Market Readiness’ Carbon Tax Guide
The Partnership for Market Readiness’ 2017 Carbon Tax Guide surveys design and modeling principles, potential externalities, oversight and compliance considerations, and case studies.
Proposed Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act of 2015
The proposed Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act of 2015 would have expanded the definition of “qualified income” to include clean energy resources and infrastructure projects.
Report, Recommendation for Enhancing the Role of Forests in Climate Change Mitigation and Ecosystem Adaption to Climate Change
The National Association of State Foresters’ 2015 policy statement outlines recommendation related to private forest management, urban forests, forest health funding, fire assistance, and federal and ...
Prohibition on federally supported agriculture on erodible land or wetlands
16 USC §3811 and §3821 prohibit farms from producing agricultural products on highly erodible land without a conservation plan, and on unconverted wetlands, respectively, if that land receives support...
Diesel Emissions Reduction Act programs
DERA provides federal funding in the form of grants to eligible entities for projects that reduce emissions from existing diesel engines. The programs provide funding for applicants nationally, at the...
Proposed Advancing Research on Agricultural Climate Impacts Act
The 2023 proposed Advancing Research on Agricultural Climate Impacts (ARACI) Act addresses a lack of standardized methodologies for soil carbon measurement and fragmented data collection which make ca...
LPDD Model Law: Coal Fair Market Value Act
This model law amends the definition of “Fair Market Value” (FMV) under which the federal government may lease land for coal projects, forcing the winning bidder to account for more potential revenues...
Article, Declining CO2 price paths
A 2019 article, Declining CO2 price paths, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, argues that traditional financial evaluation of uncertain climate risks favors an initially high (>$1...
RFI paper, The Initial Incidence of a Carbon Tax across Income Groups
Resources for the Future’s 2014 discussion paper, The Initial Incidence of a Carbon Tax across Income Groups, links dynamic models of the United States to estimate the initial incidence of a carbon ta...
ICAO Recommendation Against Fuel Taxes
The ICAO’s Policies on Taxation in the Field of International Air Transport calls for the total exemption from taxation of fuel used in international aviation. This exemption is now contained in inter...
Report, Multilateral Climate Efforts Beyond the UNFCCC
C2ES’s 2011 paper, Multilateral Climate Efforts Beyond the UNFCCC, discusses venues for forwarding climate negotiations outside the Paris Agreement, including the International Maritime Organization, ...
Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act
The Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act (2018) called for construction of a fast neutron source for testing advanced technologies. The U.S. currently lacks such a facility, forcing companies to...
IRENA Report, Renewable Energy Prospects: United States of America
IRENA’s 2015 report looks at the realistic potential for higher renewable energy uptake in all parts of the US energy system, including power, industry, buildings, and the transport sectors. It target...
Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act
The 2015 Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act included two freight-related programs: the National Highway Freight Program (which funds infrastructure investments directly) and the Nation...
Proposed HR 8 of 2015
Proposed HR 8 of 2015, the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act, would have (among other things) authorized FERC to extend license terms beyond 50 years when approving a project upgra...
Clean Coal Power Initiative
The Clean Coal Power Initiative was authorized to distribute $200 million for each fiscal year between 2006 and 2014 to support “clean” coal projects. The third round of funding under this program inc...
LPDD Model Law: Federal Green Private Activity Bonds Act
Generally, public entities may only issue tax-exempt bonds for governmental purposes. The Internal Revenue Code specifies certain limited categories of tax-exempt bonds that may be issued for private ...
Bipartisan Policy Center report, Policies for a Modern and Reliable U.S. Electric Grid
The Bipartisan Policy Center released a 2013 report proposing a new federal backstop siting authority for transmission, allowing FERC to approve multistate transmission projects if a state siting auth...
LBNL report, The Role of Emerging Technologies Improving Energy Efficiency: Examples From the Food Processing Industry
Lung et al.’s report for Lawrence Berkeley National Labs analyzes the impacts that several emerging technologies have had in the food processing industry. The analysis documents energy savings, carbon...
LPDD Model Law: Federal Clean Energy Workforce Study
This model federal law would create a commission to oversee a comprehensive study of the workforce needs of the United States economy as it rapidly decarbonizes. A decarbonizing United States economy,...
Report, Conservation Easements and Climate Change
Aaronson and Manuel’s 2008 report notes how the current law of conservation easements does not recognize the full potential for carbon capture resulting from land conservation, in part because the tax...
Resources for the Future Reports on Social Cost of Carbon
Resources for the Future coordinate economists and scientists to improve the science behind estimates of the SCC. They have published a range of briefs, reports, and testimony on improving utilization...
Report, Exploring the Role of Advanced Nuclear in Future Energy Markets
EPRI’s 2018 report, Exploring the Role of Advanced Nuclear in Future Energy Markets, developed a modeling study to inform nuclear R&D, future modeling research, and technology developers’ priorities a...
2017’s Proposed S. 1460
2017’s proposed S. 1460 would have reformed the hydropower licensing and permitting program by statutorily designating FERC as the lead agency, for purposes of NEPA review, for all licenses and permit...
Report, Carbon Balance Effects of US Biofuel Production and Use
DeCicco et al.’s 2016 report, Carbon Balance Effects of US Biofuel Production and Use, suggests the carbon balance effects of starch-based fuels such as corn ethanol and biodiesel may tip toward a net...
Report, The Climate Case for a National Investment Authority
This August 2020 Data for Progress report discusses the creation of a National Investment Authority (NIA): a public entity that would design, execute, and finance a comprehensive nationwide program of...
Report, Opportunities to Reduce Food Waste in the 2023 Farm Bill
Opportunities to Reduce Food Waste in the 2023 Farm Bill details how Congress can take action to reduce food waste and offers specific recommendations of provisions to include in the 2023 Farm Bill. T...
Carbon Dioxide Removal Law Database
CDRLaw.org is an annotated bibliography of legal materials pertaining to carbon dioxide removal, and to utilization and storage of carbon dioxide. The site was created by the Sabin Center for Climate ...
Proposed Nuclear Powers America Act of 2019
The proposed Nuclear Powers America Act of 2019 would establish a 30 percent tax credit for refueling costs and qualified nuclear power plant capital expenditures each year through 2023. After that, i...
Public Lands Renewable Energy Development Act
The Public Lands Renewable Energy Development Act has been introduced several times in Congress in recent years. It would open more federal land to renewable development, expedite environmental review...
Industry Chapter in IPCC Fifth Assessment Report
The Industry Chapter in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report surveys mitigation technology options in the cement sector, calling attention to a mix of CCS, bioenergy, and low-carbon electricity sources.
United States Mid-Century Strategy for Deep Decarbonization
The United States Mid-Century Strategy for Deep Decarbonization illustrates pathways to achieve an 80 percent economy-wide emission reduction by 2050. It considers various scenarios, including a bench...
Report, An 80×30 Clean Electricity Standard: Carbon, Costs, and Health Benefits
While federal lawmakers discussed the potential for passing a national clean energy standard (CES) in 2021, the Clean Energy Futures group issued a report that analyzes the energy, economic, environme...
Proposed EFFECT Act
The proposed EFFECT Act (S. 1201, 2019) would update and strengthen the DOE Office of Fossil Energy’s RDD&D objectives and programs for carbon capture, utilization, removal and storage. The legislatio...
EPA Black Carbon Report
EPA’s 2011 Black Carbon Report to Congress represents an intensive effort to compile, assess, and summarize available scientific information on the current and future impacts of black carbon, and to e...
Report, The Impact of Climate Targets on Steel Production
Morfeldt et al.’s 2014 paper, The Impact of Climate Targets on Steel Production – An Analysis Based on a Global Energy System Model, addresses how a global climate target may influence iron and steel ...
Proposed Vehicle Innovation Act of 2017
The proposed Vehicle Innovation Act of 2017 would have strengthened the DOE’s Vehicle Technologies Office, authorizing R&D grants starting at $313.6 million for fiscal year 2018, with a 4% increase ea...
Report, Carbon Capture for CO2 Emission Reduction in the Cement Industry in Germany
Markewitz et al.’s 2014 paper analyzed post-combustion technology for cement plants carried out on the basis of detailed model calculations. CO2 avoidance costs were reported in a range of 77 to 115 E...
Congressional Research Service Report, US Tree Planting for Carbon Sequestration
The Congressional Research Service’s 2009 report examines the use of afforestation to provide offsets under a cap-and-trade approach.
Report, Soil Health and Carbon Sequestration in US Cropland
UC Berkeley’s 2016 report, Soil Health and Carbon Sequestration in US Croplands: A Policy Analysis, estimates that while agricultural soils currently only sequester 8.4 million metric tones of CO2-e p...
Proposed USE IT Act of 2019
The proposed USE IT Act of 2019 would further the development and innovation of carbon utilization and direct air capture technologies and processes.
2017’s proposed Off Fossil Fuels for a Better Future Act
2017’s proposed Off Fossil Fuels for a Better Future Act included a federal moratorium on new major fossil fuel projects, to commence in 2018.
HFC Cuts in COVID Relief Bill (2020) — Including Responsive EPA Proposals
In December 2020, Congress passed COVID relief legislation which included specific HFC measures. The legislation includes measures to direct spending to boost renewable energy and limit the use of HFC...
CRS Report, Nitrous Oxide from Agricultural Sources: Potential Role in Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Ozone Recovery
This 2010 Congressional Research Service report considers whether nitrous oxide emissions should be subject to direct regulation, what role EPA should play using its existing Clean Air Act authority, ...
Proposed Community and Hydropower Improvement Act (S.1521, 2023)
In 2023, the Community and Hydropower Improvement Act (S.1521) was introduced in the U.S. Senate. This bill modifies requirements for hydropower projects, including by accelerating and coordinating th...
Report, The Playbook for Paradigm Shift: A Green Recovery in the COVID-19 Context
The Stanley Center for Peace and Security’s July 2020 report discusses financing options, structural reforms, and international cooperation in the context of a green recovery.
Proposed H-Prize Act
In 2007, the House of Representatives passed the H-Prize Act to authorize $70 million in prizes for advancements in hydrogen energy.
Federal EV Tax Credit
The U.S. government provides a federal tax credit of up to $7,500 for those who purchase electric or hybrid vehicles. The government previously provided a tax credit for the qualifying costs of the pu...
Healthy Forests Reserve Program
The Healthy Forests Reserve Program helps landowners restore, enhance, and protect forestland resources on private lands through easements and financial assistance. The US Forest Service could use its...
Carbon Pricing in the Americas Declaration
On 12 December 2017, at the One Planet Summit in Paris, France, the governments of Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, as well as the US states of California and Washington and Canadian provi...
Report, The critical role of the industrial sector in reaching long-term emission reduction, energy efficiency and renewable targets
Birgit Fais et al.’s 2016 report evaluates the critical contribution of the industry sector to long-term decarbonization, efficiency and renewable energy policy targets. It identifies the scale of eff...
EPA Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks
EPA’s Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks (2018) summarizes the latest information on U.S. anthropogenic greenhouse gas emission trends across various sources and sectors from 1990 through...
Proposed HR 2872 of 2017
Proposed HR 2872 of 2017, the Promoting Hydropower Development at Existing Nonpowered Dams Act, would have established an expedited licensing process for issuing and amending licenses and preliminary ...
Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act
The Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act funds state initiatives aimed at helping private forest owners achieve helping private forest owners achieve forest stewardship management planning. This progra...
Report, Examination of Federal Financial Assistance in the Renewable Energy Market
A 2018 DOE report, Examination of Federal Financial Assistance in the Renewable Energy Market, projected that if the similar types of federal tax incentives and mandates as those received by renewable...
Report, Clean Energy Standards: State and Federal Policy Options and Implications
C2ES and RAP prepared a 2011 white paper on state and federal policy options for implementing Clean Energy Standards.
CPLC report, State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2018
Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition’s 2018 report, State and Trends of Carbon Pricing, focuses on data and information on the evolving initiatives that put a price on carbon, in terms of their most cu...
WRI Report, Delivering on the U.S. Climate Commitment: A 10-Point Plan Toward a Low-Carbon Future
WRI’s 2015 working paper examines where greenhouse gas emissions are headed if the United States does not take any new action to curb their release, how it can meet its 2025 emissions target using exi...
Proposed Climate Stewardship Act (2019)
The proposed Climate Stewardship Act of 2019 would: Plant over 16 billion trees by 2050, on a combination of federal, state, local, tribal, and non-governmental lands. The ambitious level of tree plan...
Energy Policy Act of 2005
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 outlined processes for natural gas pipeline certification. The legislation granted jurisdiction to the courts to take action where an agency fails to take timely action, ...
Federal Renewable Fuel Standard
The federal Renewable Fuel Standard was enacted as part of the Energy Policy Act in 2005. It was revised to include more feedstocks and prioritize GHG reductions as part of the Energy Independence and...
Report, Decarbonising Europeʼs energy intensive industries
Wyns and Axelson’s 2016 report focuses on innovative process technologies in emissions intensive industries that significantly improve the emission performance compared to current (state-of-the-art) t...
Proposed Climate Risk Disclosure Act of 2019
The proposed Climate Risk Disclosure Act of 2019 would require disclosure to the SEC the total amount of a company’s fossil fuel-related assets, how the valuation of those assets will be affected by c...
Proposed HR 2872 of 2017
Proposed HR 2872 of 2017, the Promoting Hydropower Development at Existing Nonpowered Dams Act, would have established an expedited licensing process for issuing and amending licenses and preliminary ...
EQIP Improvement Act
The EQIP Improvement Act, introduced in 2018, would prioritize EQIP funding at the state and county level for the most effective conservation practices, while also reducing the maximum cost-sharing fr...
ICAO voluntary efficiency goal
In 2010, ICAO member states adopted a goal of global annual average fuel efficiency improvements of 2% annually until 2020 and an aspirational global fuel efficiency improvement rate of 2% annually fr...
Proposed Clean Energy for America Act (S. 1288)
Introduced in May 2019, S.1288 would amend the Internal Revenue Code to replace the 44 existing energy tax credits with three technology neutral tax provisions that would incentivize the use of low an...
Proposed Biofuels Market Expansion Act
The Proposed Biofuels Market Expansion Act of 2011 would have made renewable fuel pipelines eligible for loan guarantees for projects that reduce GHGs and employ new or significantly improved technolo...
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program
The federal government has operated an Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program for several decades under the 1990 Pollution Prevention Act, which focuses federal procurement programs on clean te...
ACEEE Policy Brief on Federal EERS
ACEEE has written a policy brief on the parameters that a federal EERS should take.
Federal sequestration tax credit
26 USC §45Q creates a tax credit for the sequestration of carbon dioxide captured from an industrial source. Beginning in 2008, investment tax credits of $20 per metric ton of CO2 and $10 per captured...
RFF Carbon Pricing Bill Tracker
Resources for the Future has launched a Carbon Pricing Bill Tracker comparing all of the carbon pricing bills introduced in the 116th Congress to see where there is and is not agreement on the array o...
Proposed Distributed Energy Demonstration Act of 2017
The proposed Distributed Energy Demonstration Act of 2017 would have required the DOE to establish demonstration grant programs for Smart Grid technologies.
TPC report, How to Use Carbon Tax Revenues
The Tax Policy Center’s 2016 report, How to Use Carbon Tax Revenues, identifies tradeoffs among tax revenue options and makes several recommendations for policy design. It recommends that governments ...
The Montreal Protocol and Kigali Amendment
The Montreal Protocol (1988) legally mandates the phaseout of the production and use of controlled ozone-depleting substances, setting phaseout obligations on a strictly enforced schedule. Parties mus...
Report, A Roadmap to 100% Clean Electricity by 2035
This February 2021 report from Data for Progress and the Evergreen Coalition outlines how Congress can use a CES to put the U.S. on a path to 100% clean electricity by 2035. The report details how a C...
Report, Reducing CO2 emissions from heavy industry
The Grantham Institute published a 2012 report, Reducing CO2 emissions from heavy industry: a review of technologies and considerations for policy makers. The report outlines the options for reducing ...
Proposed Foreign Pollution Fee Act
Introduced in November, 2023, the proposed Foreign Pollution Fee Act marks a rare Republican proposal to price carbon pollution — from foreign imports. The new bill would impose a fee on certain indus...
Proposed Distributed Energy Demonstration Act of 2017
The proposed Distributed Energy Demonstration Act of 2017 would have required the DOE to establish demonstration grant programs for Smart Grid technologies.
CE Delft: A Study on Aviation Ticket Taxes
CE Delft’s 2018 study reviewed legal disputes over five different ticket taxes. Though the study surveyed European countries, the disputes were founded on statutes relevant to the US, including Articl...
Report, A review of the technologies, economics and policy instruments for decarbonising energy-intensive manufacturing industries
Napp et al.’s 2014 report seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of the technologies for reducing emissions from industrial processes by collating information from a wide range of sources.
Report, Climate Change and Federal Crop Insurance
Marzan and Ballard’s 2016 report examines the present risk of climate change in agriculture and discusses recent steps taken to address climate change in agriculture in general, specifically within th...
Report, Fossil Fuel Subsidies: A Closer Look at Tax Breaks and Societal Costs
EESI’s 2019 report, Fossil Fuel Subsidies: A Closer Look at Tax Breaks and Societal Costs, identifies eight different active direct and indirect fossil fuel subsidies in the tax code, as well as recen...
Proposed National Climate Bank Legislation of 2019-20
Senator Ed Markey introduced legislation calling for a National Climate Bank (S. 2057), a nonprofit institution independent of government, designed to reduce energy costs and leave consumers and busin...
FAST Act
The Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act outlined regulatory process improvements to encourage timely agency decisions through the publication of agency status reports under the federal permitt...
Report, Changing Climate for Carbon Taxes: Who’s afraid of the WTO?
The German Marshall Fund’s 2013 paper, Changing Climate for Carbon Taxes: Who’s afraid of the WTO?, explores the basic architecture of a carbon border tax adjustment, as well as complications includin...
Federal nuclear research grants
In 2017, DOE announced nearly $67 millionin grants awarded towards advanced nuclear energy research from a series of funding programs, including $37 million to support university-led nuclear energy re...
American Water Infrastructure Act
The American Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 created a fast-track procedure for the licensing of efficiency upgrades at hydropower facilities, as well as modernization activities and upgrades that ar...
Report, Internationally Compatible Biofuel Standards
Representatives of Brazil, the EU and the U.S. agreed to promote, whenever possible, the compatibility of biofuels-related standards in their respective regions. A tri-party task force report examined...
Report, An Analysis of US Subsidies for Electric Buses and Freight Trucks
This January 2022 issue brief analyzes the CO2 reductions possible under various potential subsidies for electric transit buses and certain trucks. It offers a new computational model that accounts fo...
Biomass Assistance Program
The 2008 Farm Bill’s Biomass Assistance Program was the first federal subsidy program for energy biomass. It provides financial assistance for the growth of biomass crops as long as feedstocks are ren...
LPDD Model Law: Enhancing ESA Consultation and Permitting Procedures
The model law below would provide for conducting joint regional reviews of renewable energy projects under both the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA), in or...
Report, Biogas in the United States
The Nicholson Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions’ 2014 report, Biogas in the United States: An Assessment of Market Potential in a Carbon-Constrained Future, finds that generation of biogas ...
Report, An Analysis of Forestry Carbon Sequestration as a Response to Climate Change
Sohngen’s 2009 analysis argues for afforestation as a cost-effective mechanism for climate mitigation, modeling up to a 17% increase globally in forest acreage.
Report, Capturing Investment: Policy Design to Finance CCUS Projects in the U.S. Power Sector
The Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy’s 2020 report examines which policies might work to stimulate investment for CCUS projects in the U.S. power sector, including capital incentives...
Proposed Vehicle Innovation Act of 2017
The proposed Vehicle Innovation Act of 2017 would have strengthened the DOE’s Vehicle Technologies Office, authorizing R&D grants starting at $313.6 million for fiscal year 2018, with a 4% increase ea...
Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act
The Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (2019) calls on the NRC to make its review process “technology inclusive” by 2028. The process was designed for the light water reactors of the last...
Report, Energy Infrastructure Needs for a Net Zero Economy
This February 2021 report presents modeling results on energy infrastructure needs for a net-zero economy. These modeling results address four questions: What types of clean energy infrastructure are ...
Report, The Role of Patent Law in Incentivizing Green Technology
The Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property published a 2013 article, The Role of Patent Law in Incentivizing Green Technology, which surveys the incentive that the patent system ...
Proposed American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009
The proposed American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (“Waxman-Markey”) would have endorsed a regional transmission planning model and the expansion of federal backstop authority over transmissi...
ICAP Emissions Trading Worldwide Status Report
The International Carbon Action Partnership’s 2019 Emissions Trading Worldwide Status Report summarizes global progress in implementing carbon cap and tax schemes. The ICAP website lists regularly upd...
Report, Greenprint
Chapter 5 of the Center for Global Development’s 2012 paper, Greenprint, models the impacts of four different carbon border adjustment policy scenarios.
Proposed Healthy Employee Loss Prevention Act of 2018
The proposed Healthy Employee Loss Prevention Act of 2018 would establish a worker adjustment assistance program to provide assistance and job retraining for workers who have lost their jobs due to un...
Proposed BEST Act of 2019
The proposed BEST Act of 2019 would amend the Energy Storage Competitiveness Act of 2007 to create a research, development, and demonstration program for grid-scale energy storage systems.
ICAO Fuels Task Group
The ICAO Fuels Task Group (2019) (formerly the Alternative Fuels Task Force) will have the obligation of developing a methodology to assess the life cycle emissions of biofuels, upon which basis ICAO ...
Report, Artificial Intelligence for Climate Change Mitigation Roadmap
This 2023 roadmap asks whether AI can help cut emissions of greenhouse gases, and explores how. The report explores six areas in which AI is helping respond to climate change already, including emissi...
LPDD Model Law: Reducing Black Carbon in Arctic Shipping
As new shipping lanes emerge in the Arctic, the potential harms attributable to black carbon emissions — which coats the surrounding ice surface black and accordingly increases the rate of heat absorp...
Report, Energy Efficient Technology Diffusion Factors
A 2012 report, Energy Efficient Technology Diffusion Factors: A Systemic Review, shows that expected improvement in energy consumption has not been achieved in spite of the innovation and improvement ...
Proposed Green Streets Act (2021)
Reintroduced in 2021, the federal GREEN Streets Act would establish standards for emissions and vehicle miles traveled on the national highway system, while requiring states and Metropolitan Planning ...
Permitting Reform in 2023 Debt Ceiling Law
As part of negotiations around the 2023 debt ceiling increase, Congress adopted certain revisions to the permitting process for energy projects, including: Amending the National Environmental Policy A...
NASEM report, The Power of Change
A 2016 NASEM report, The Power of Change: Innovation for Development and Deployment of Increasingly Clean Electric Power Technologies, provides an assessment of current technologies and policies for a...
Proposed Growing Climate Solutions Act (2020)
The proposed Growing Climate Solutions Act (2020) directs the USDA to create a program that would help the agriculture sector gain access to revenue from greenhouse gas offset credit markets. The bill...
IEA Cement Technology Roadmap
The International Energy Agency’s Cement Technology Roadmap highlights technological levers to lowering emissions in the cement sector.
Report, A Plan for a Clean Jumpstart to Rebuilt America’s Economy: Policy Proposals and Guidance
In the post-COVID-19 policy space, advocates from the Evergreen organization that grew out of the Jay Inslee presidential campaign put forward a Clean Jumpstart plan, calling for major clean energy an...
Report, Framework Proposal for a US Upstream Greenhouse Gas Tax with WTO-Compliant Border Adjustments
Resources for the Future’s 2018 paper, Framework Proposal for a US Upstream Greenhouse Gas Tax with WTO-Compliant Border Adjustments, proposes a framework for a US climate policy with border adjustmen...
2013 Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act
The 2013 Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act authorized all small (5 MW and under) Bureau of Reclamation conduit facilities for hydropower development. This l...
Biomass Research and Development Initiative
USDA and DOE provides grant funding for projects addressing research, development, and demonstration of biofuels and bio-based products and the methods, practices, and technologies for their productio...
Princeton Report, Net Zero America
A major Princeton University-led analysis concludes there’s a range of economically beneficial and technologically feasible options for reaching “net-zero” U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The s...
Proposed Renewable Electricity Standard Act of 2019
The proposed Renewable Electricity Standard Act of 2019 would require retail electricity providers to purchase RECs in compliance with a goal of at least 50% electricity from renewables by 2035, while...
Proposed Carbon Capture Improvement Act of 2017
The Proposed Carbon Capture Improvement Act of 2017 would have amended the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the issuance of tax-exempt facility bonds for the financing of qualified carbon dioxide ca...
2005 Energy Policy Act PTC for Nuclear
The 2005 Energy Policy Act established a production tax credit (PTC) of 1.8 cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity produced during the first eight years of operation by advanced nuclear power faciliti...
Technology and US Emissions Reductions Goals: Results of the EMF 24 Modeling Exercise
The EMF 24 U.S. Technology Scenarios engaged nine top energy-environment-economy models to examine the implications of technological improvements and technological availability for reducing U.S. green...
ICAO carbon standard
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is a UN-organized body that encourages its 191 member states to adopt sustainable growth strategies. In March 2017, ICAO adopted a carbon standard ...
Report, Eliminating Fossil Fuel Subsidies
The Hamilton Project’s 2013 report, Eliminating Fossil Fuel Subsidies, identifies twelve provisions in the tax code that subsidize activities associated with the production of fossil fuels that impose...
Proposed CLEAN Future Act (2020)
The proposed Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s (CLEAN) Future Act (2020) is a large, economy-wide climate bill released by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Among ...
ICAO’s Sustainable Aviation Fuels Guide
The ICAO’s Sustainable Aviation Fuels Guide (2018) was prepared to inform ICAO Member States on how sustainable aviation fuels can be deployed to reduce CO2 emissions from international aviation activ...
Congressional Research Service Brief on Clean Coal Loan Guarantees
A 2014 Congressional Research Service brief provides a survey of clean coal loan guarantees and tax incentives.
Resources on Industrial Symbiosis
Industrial symbiosis engages traditionally separate industries that seek competitive advantage through physical exchange of materials, energy, water, and byproducts. Collaboration, synergistic connect...
Proposed METHANE Act
2019’s proposed Methane Emissions from Transmission Harm American Neighborhoods and the Environment (METHANE) Act would require owners and operators of pipelines and pipeline facilities to use the bes...
2017’s Proposed HR 3043
2017’s proposed HR 3043, the Hydropower Policy Modernization Act, would have designated FERC as the lead agency for coordinating all federal authorizations and reviews related to hydropower license ap...
Proposed LEADING Act of 2019
The proposed LEADING Act of 2019 would require DOE to establish a program to develop cost-effective carbon capture technologies that can be used at natural gas-generating power facilities. The bill wo...
Proposed Zero Emissions Homes Act (2021)
This 2021 bill seeks to provide rebates for the purchase and installation of electric appliances and equipment in single-family homes and multifamily buildings, with additional support for low- and mo...
LPDD Model Law: Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal Research
This model legislation would create a new legal framework specifically for ocean CDR research. The new framework is designed to achieve the dual goals of facilitating needed ocean CDR research, while ...
Carbon Capture Coalition’s 2019 Federal Policy Blueprint
The Carbon Capture Coalition’s 2019 Federal Policy Blueprint analyzes challenges to implementing §45Q CCS tax credits, as well as other tax policies needed for investment certainty and technology depl...
Report, Opportunities and Limits of CO2 Recycling in a Circular Carbon Economy
This report, part of the Carbon Management Research Initiative at Columbia University’s Center on Global Policy, examines 19 CO2 recycling pathways to understand the opportunities and the technical an...
Report, The Economics of Just Transition
The Political Economy Research Institute published a 2016 report, The Economics of Just Transition, which proposes a just transition framework for U.S. fossil fuel workers. At $600 million per year, t...
Report, Challenges and Opportunities for New Pumped Storage Development
The National Hydropower Association’s report, Challenges and Opportunities for New Pumped Storage Development, surveys the potential for hydropower pumped storage to support greater grid reliability, ...
US Woody Biomass Utilization Strategy
The Woody Biomass Utilization Strategy contemplates the use of excess woody materials from national forests for energy generation in order to, among other things, improve ecosystem health, restore for...
Federal Loan Guarantees for Clean Coal Technologies
Title XVII of the Environmental Policy Act of 2005 provides broad authority for the Department of Energy to guarantee loans for innovative projects, including clean coal projects. DOE made $8.5 billio...
Proposed Bipartisan Climate Roadmap
Proposed Roadmap supported by prominent corporations and NGOs calls for a rising carbon fee, carbon dividends for all Americans, deregulation in certain cases, and a border carbon adjustment.
Report, Eyes on a Climate Prize
The Harvard Environmental Law Review’s 2008 article, Eyes on a Climate Prize: Rewarding Innovation to Achieve Climate Stabilization, outlines the theory and history of the use of inducement prizes to ...
EnergyPolicyTracker.org
Collectively, G20 governments represent about 80 percent of the world’s economic input, and together, have pledged to inject trillions of dollars into the global economy to counteract the health, soci...
CAA rules delegating shipping emissions authority to states
The Clean Air Act gives US states the right to draw up their own “in-use” rules on reducing greenhouse gases from international shipping. They may submit these rules for EPA approval, or enact them on...
Proposed Nuclear Energy Leadership Act of 2018
The proposed Nuclear Energy Leadership Act of 2018 would have included enhanced federal investment in the nuclear industry, establishing facilities to test and develop advanced nuclear reactors and to...
Report, Review of Policies and Measures for Energy Efficiency in Industry Sector
Tanaka’s 2011 paper, Review of Policies and Measures for Energy Efficiency in Industry Sector, reviews over 300 policies, encompassing about 570 measures, implemented by governments in Brazil, China, ...
Report, Agriculture and Climate Change: Policy Imperatives and Opportunities to Help Producers Meet the Challenge
This 2019 position paper from the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition reviews the science related to climate change mitigation and adaptation on farms in the U.S., in order to provide a sound r...
Proposed Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012
The proposed Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 would have adopted a standard of 84% clean energy by 2035, including partial credits for natural gas, nuclear, and hydroelectric. EIA estimated that the ...
California Biogas Quality Standards
In response to state legislation, the California PUC finalized quality standard for biogas. They prescribe acceptable concentration levels for 17 constituents of concern in biogas, including arsenic, ...
Report, Exploring the Role of Advancing Nuclear in Future Energy Markets
EPRI’s 2018 report, Exploring the Role of Advanced Nuclear in Future Energy Markets, developed a modeling study to inform nuclear R&D, future modeling research, and technology developers’ priorities a...
Costofcarbon.org
Costofcarbon.org, a project of the Institute for Policy Integrity, compiles a suite of resources and literature on the evolving effort to properly value the cost of carbon pollution, and highlights ef...
Railroad Safety Improvement Act of 2008
The Railroad Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (122 Stat. 4848) required certain railroad lines to install positive train control technology by the end of 2015, a deadline which has been extended.
Industry Chapter in IPCC Fifth Assessment Report
The Industry Chapter in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report surveys options in the paper sector, calling attention to a variety of mitigation opportunities in energy, emissions, and material efficiency.
NRDC report, America’s Clean Energy Frontier: The Pathway to a Safer Climate Future
NRDC’s 2017 report provides analysis demonstrating that with action on energy efficiency, renewable energy, electrification of vehicles and buildings with clean power, and electric grid enhancements, ...
Report, Modernizing Freight Rail Regulation
The National Research Council has prepared recommendations for how to revise railroad rate regulation, including the development of competitive rate benchmarking methodology; required binding arbitrat...
Clean Energy Standards Issue Brief
Resources for the Future has prepared an issue brief on a potential national Clean Energy Standard, addressing past legislation, state models, and design options.
Proposed Super Pollutants Act (2019)
This proposed 2019 legislation would reduce short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) in the atmosphere by enabling federal agencies to set up a taskforce with businesses and non-profits to speed the ado...
ICF Report, Economic Analysis of US Decarbonization Pathways
ICF International authored a 2015 report using the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project’s US Decarbonization report as a basis and attempting to measure decarbonization’s economic impact. Its results...
Proposed Marshall Plan for Coal Country Act (2020)
The proposed Marshall Plan for Coal Country Act, a nod to the economic recovery plan for Europe after World War II, would ensure health care coverage for coal workers as well as cover higher education...
Proposed PACE Act of 2017
The proposed Pace Act of 2017 would have amended the Truth in Lending Act to extend that Act’s requirements to real property retrofit loans. A “real property retrofit loan” is a loan that is: (1) secu...
World Bank Report, Managing Coal Mine Closure
The World Bank’s 2018 report, Managing Coal Mine Closure, summarizes lessons-learned from more than two decades of World Bank assistance on coal mine closure to governments, enterprises, workers and t...
American Water Infrastructure Act
The American Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 created a fast-track procedure for the licensing of efficiency upgrades at hydropower facilities, as well as modernization activities and upgrades that ar...
Report, Clean Products Standard: A New Approach to Industrial Decarbonization
This 2020 report proposes a novel market-based standard for manufacturing, a clean products standard (CPS), which could reduce emissions from the manufacture of these GHG-intensive products. A CPS wou...
Existing Federal Forest Management Legislation and Regulation
The National Forest Management Act of 1976 established a planning process by which national forestland would be divided into zones by use, and given standards and guidelines to regulate those uses. Th...
Federal tax incentives for clean coal power generation facilities
26 USC §48A allows up to a 30% tax credit for qualifying advanced coal projects generating electricity that also capture and sequester 65% or more of their carbon dioxide emissions. 26 USC §48B allows...
Proposed Biofuels Pipeline Act of 2008
The proposed Biofuels Pipeline Act of 2008 would have changed the tax code to provide the same incentives for ethanol pipeline builders that oil pipeline builders receive.
Model Legislation: The Carbon Capture and Sequestration Regulatory Act of 2010
The CCSReg Project’s model legislation on CCS aimed to establish a comprehensive system for the safe and effective transport and geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide. It addresses siting and const...
Advanced Industrial Facilities Deployment Program
As part of the Inflation Reduction Act, the $5.8 billion Advanced Industrial Facilities Deployment Program provides competitive financial support to owners and operators of energy-intensive industrial...
Report, 100% Clean and Renewable Wind, Water, and Sunlight (WWS) All-Sector Energy Roadmaps for the 50 United States
Jacobsen et al.’s 2015 study presents roadmaps for each of the 50 United States to convert their all-purpose energy systems (for electricity, transportation, heating/cooling, and industry) to ones pow...
Proposed Financing Our Energy Future Act of 2019
The proposed Financing Our Energy Future Act of 2019 concerns Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs). An MLP is taxed as a partnership but ownership interests are traded like corporate stock on a market. ...
Advanced Technologies Vehicle Manufacturing Program
The Advanced Technologies Vehicle Manufacturing Program provides direct loans to automotive or component manufacturers for reequipping, expanding, or establishing manufacturing facilities in the U.S. ...
Report, Decarbonising Europeʼs energy intensive industries
Wyns and Axelson’s 2016 report focuses on innovative process technologies in emissions intensive industries that significantly improve the emission performance compared to current (state-of-the-art) t...
Resource, Better Recovery, Better World: Resetting Climate Action in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic
This report, released by the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action, examines the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis on climate policies and offers a set of economic policy option...
LPDD Model Law: Proposed Revisions to the MBTA and BGEPA for Permitting Renewable Energy
This model law proposes language to give the Fish and Wildlife Service explicit authority to grant incidental take permits for renewables and transmission lines under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and...
Income Tax Incentives for Land Conservation Database
The Land Trust Alliance maintains a database of income tax incentives for land conservation. Their webpage discusses application of the federal conservation tax deduction in detail. Their April 2019 u...
Report, Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Regulation
Nordhaus and Pitlick’s 2009 report in The Energy Law Journal suggests a regulatory framework to better support construction of the new CO2 pipeline infrastructure necessary for widespread deployment o...
EU report on Waste Management and Recycling in Japan
The EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation prepared a 2015 report analyzing the legal regime for waste management in Japan broadly, outlining technical processes and responsible entities, providin...
Biomass Research and Development Initiative
The BR&D Initiative receives funding through US DOE and the Dept. of Agriculture. The BR&D Initiative is legislatively directed to address technical areas including feedstock development; biofuels and...
Report, Bringing Infrastructure Home: A 50-State Report on U.S Home Electrification
Rewiring America’s June 2021 report, Bringing Infrastructure Home: A 50-State Report on U.S Home Electrification, highlights the benefits of household electrification in terms of climate, household sa...
Institute for Policy Integrity Report on Social Cost of Carbon
The Institute for Policy Integrity has published a suite of helpful reports analyzing the Social Cost of Carbon. A 2015 report, Expert Consensus on the Economics of Climate Change, found among its res...
Report, Energy Efficiency in the German Pulp and Paper Industry
Fleiter’s 2012 report, Energy Efficiency in the German Pulp and Paper Industry — A Model-Based Assessment of Saving Potentials, assesses 17 process technologies to improve energy efficiency in the pul...
Report, Lessons From the Past for Assessing Energy Technologies for the Future
Albert Lin’s 2014 article in the UCLA Law Review, Lessons From the Past for Assessing Energy Technologies for the Future, considers the novel and uncertain hazards of new energy technologies. It prese...
Report, Making Border Carbon Adjustments Work in Law and Practice
The Tax Policy Center’s 2018 paper, Making Border Carbon Adjustments Work in Law and Practice, addresses issues relating to the creation of border carbon adjustments as part of a carbon tax, including...
LPDD Model Law: Federal Interoperability Provisions for Commercial EV Chargers
One obstacle to the widespread availability of publicly accessible, convenient EV Level 2 charging equipment and DC fast chargers is the inadequate interoperability that currently exists among the var...
Report, Global Transportation Energy and Climate Roadmap
The International Council on Clean Transportation released a 2012 report titled Global Transportation Energy and Climate Roadmap, which analyzed different policy trajectories to meet transportation de...
DDPP Report, Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States, US 2050 Report
The DDP Report, Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States, evaluates the infrastructure and technology changes required to reduce U.S. GHG emissions in the year 2050 by 80% below 1990 leve...
Energy Policy Act of 2005
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 provides a useful model for how Congress or states might overcome local governments obstructing the permitting of transmission. Its provisions on the siting of liquefied ...
Report, Reducing CO2 emissions from heavy industry
The Grantham Institute published a 2012 report, Reducing CO2 emissions from heavy industry: a review of technologies and considerations for policy makers. The report outlines the options for reducing ...
Federal Renewable Fuel Standard
The federal Renewable Fuel Standard was enacted as part of the Energy Policy Act in 2005. It was revised to include more feedstocks and prioritize GHG reductions as part of the Energy Independence and...
Proposed Green Bank Act of 2017
HR 2995 of 2017 would have established a U.S. Green Bank that provides financial support to assist regional, state, and local institutions finance clean energy or energy efficiency. It would have rece...
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