Energy: Selected Reports

• "Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2007," U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, April 15, 2009
• "The Impact of Ethanol Use on Food Prices and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions," Congressional Budget Office, April 2009
• Rob Bradley, "Green and Mean: Can the U.S. Economy Be Both Climate Friendly and Competitive?" World Resources Institute, March 10, 2009
• Richard D. Morgenstern, "The Impact of Potential Climate Mitigation Policies on Carbon-Intensive Industries and Possible Remediation Options," U.S. Helsinki Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, March 10, 2009
• Timothy Hassett, with Karin Borgerson, "Harnessing Nature's Power: Deploying and Financing On-Site Renewable Energy," World Resources Institute, March 2009
• "A National Clean-Energy Smart Grid 101," Center for American Progress, February 23, 2009
• "DOE's Decision to Restructure FutureGen Should Be Based on a Comprehensive Analysis of Costs, Benefits, and Risks," United States Government Accountability Office, February 2009
• Sarah Landislaw, Kathryn Zyla, Jonathan Pershing, Frank Verrastro, Jenna Goodward, David Pumphrey, and Britt Childs Staley, "A Roadmap for a Secure, Low-Carbon Energy Economy," World Resources Institute, February 2009
• Craig A. Severance, "Business Risks and Costs of New Nuclear Power," Climate Progress, January 5, 2009
• Craig A. Hart, "Advancing Carbon Sequestration Research in an Uncertain Legal and Regulatory Environment," Discussion Paper 2009-01, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, January 2009
• Britt Childs Staley, Sarah Ladislaw, Kathryn Zyla, and Jenna Goodward, "Evaluating the Energy Security Implications of a Carbon-Constrained U.S. Economy," World Resources Institute, January 2009
• "Shaky Science: Inconvenient Truths Ignored by EPA in Its Proposal to Regulate Carbon Dioxide Emissions," Cato Institute, December 22, 2008
• Ken Berlin, "A Framework for Achieving Energy Security and Arresting Global Warming," Center for American Progress, December 4, 2008
• Brian Levine, "The Economic Imperative for Clean Energy," Center for American Progress, December 1, 2008
• Derik Broekhoff and Kathryn Zyla, "Outside the Cap: Opportunities and Limitations of Greenhouse Gas Offsets," World Resources Institute, December 2008
• Robert J. Michaels, "A Federal Renewable Electricity Requirement: What's Not to Like?" Policy Analysis no. 627, Cato Institute, November 13, 2008
• Karen Campbell, "EPA-Mandated CO2 Reductions Will Lower U.S. Industries' Return on Equity," Center for Data Analysis Report #08-12, November 10, 2008
• John Podesta, Todd Stern, and Kit Batten, "Capturing the Energy Opportunity: Creating a Low-Carbon Economy," Center for American Progress, November 2008
• David Kreutzer and Karen Campbell, "CO2-Emission Cuts: The Economic Costs of the EPA's ANPR Regulations," Center for Data Analysis Report #08-10, October 28, 2008
• Barry Rabe, "The Complexities of Carbon Cap-and-Trade Policies: Early Lessons from the States," The Brookings Institution, October 9, 2008
• Franz Litz and Kathryn Zyla, "Federalism in the Greenhouse: Defining a Role for States in a Federal Cap-and-Trade Program," World Resources Institute, October, 2008
• Peter W. Huber, "The Million-Volt Answer to Oil," Energy Policy and the Environment Report, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, October 2008
• Robert Pollin, Heidi Garrett-Peltier, James Heintz, and Helen Scharber, "Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy," Center for American Progress and Political Economy Research Institute, September 2008
• "Federal Actions Will Greatly Affect the Viability of Carbon Capture and Storage As a Key Mitigation Option," United States Government Accountability Office, September 2008
• Joseph E. Aldy, Eduardo Ley and Ian W.H. Parry, "A Tax-Based Approach to Slowing Global Climate Change," Resources for the Future, July 2008
• "The Price of Carbon: What Should It Be and Why?" Friends of the Earth, July 8, 2008
• Brian C. Murray, Richard G. Newell and William A. Pizer, "Balancing Cost and emissions Certainty: An Allowance Reserve for Cap-and-Trade," Resources for the Future, July 2008
• Robert Pollin and Jeannette Wicks-Lim, "Job Opportunities for the Green Economy: A State-by-State Picture of Occupations that Gain from Green Investments," Political Economy Research Institute, June 2008
• Kit Batten, Benjamin Goldstein, and Bracken Hendricks, "Investing in a Green Economy: Using Cap-and-Trade Auction Revenue to Help American Families and Spur Clean Energy Innovation," Center for American Progress, June 2008
• Derik Broekhoff, "Creating Jobs With Climate Solutions: How Agriculture and Forestry Can Help Lower Costs in a Low Carbon Economy," World Resources Institute, May 21, 2008
• William W. Beach, David Kreutzer, Ben Liberman, and Nicolas Loris, "The Economic Costs of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Legislation," Center for Data Analysis Report #08-02
• "Expert Opinion on the Economics of Policy Options to Address Climate Change," United States Government Accountability Office, May 2008
• Hiranya Fernando, John Venezia, Clay Rigdon, and Preeti Verma, "Capturing King Coal: Deploying Carbon Capture and Storage Systems in the U.S. at Scale," World Resources Institute, May 2008
• David J. Hayes, "Getting Credit for Going Green: Making Sense of Carbon 'Offsets' in a Carbon-Constrained World," Center for American Progress, March 2008
• Alice Madden, "Pioneering Renewable Energy the Rocky Mountain Way: Colorado's Experience Generating Clean Energy Investment and Use," Center for American Progress, March 2008
• "Smart Energy Resource Guide," United States Environmental Protection Agency, March 2008
• Indur M. Goklany, "What to Do about Climate Change," Policy Analysis no. 609, Cato Institute, February 5, 2008
• "Policy Options for Reducing CO2 Emissions," Congressional Budget Office, February 2008
• Aparna Mathur, Kevin A. Hassett, and Gilbert E. Metcalf, "The Incidence of a U.S. Carbon Tax," AEI Working Papers, American Enterprise Institute, January 31, 2008
• Michael Toman, Aimee E. Curtright, David S. Ortiz, Joel Darmstadter, and Brian Shannon, "Unconventional Fossil-Based Fuels: Economic and Environmental Trade-Offs," Rand Corporation, 2008
• Britt Childs Staley and Rob Bradley, "Plants at the Pump: Biofuels, Climate Change, and Sustainability," World Resources Institute, December 3, 2007
• John Larsen, Thomas Damassa, and Ryan Levinson, "Charting the Midwest: An Inventory and Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in America's Heartland," World Resources Institute, November 12, 2007
• Joshua W. Busby, "Climate Change and National Security: An Agenda for Action," Council on Foreign Relations, CSR No. 32, November 2007
• "The Potential for Carbon Sequestration in the United States," Congressional Budget Office, September 2007
• Bryan K. Mignone, "The National Security Dividend of Global Carbon Mitigation," AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, June 1, 2007
• Kenneth P. Green, Steven F. Hayward, and Kevin A. Hassett, "Climate Change: Caps vs. Taxes," Environmental Policy Outlook, American Enterprise Institute, June 1, 2007
• Jetta L. Wong and Carol Werner, "The 2007 Farm Bill: Policy Recommendations for Integrated Renewable Energy Production," Environmental and Energy Study Institute, May 11, 2007
• Ken Berlin and Robert M. Sussman, "Global Warming and the Future of Coal: The Path to Carbon Capture and Storage," Center for American Progress, May 2007
• "Trade-Offs in Allocating Allowances for CO2 Emissions," Economic and Budget Issue Brief, Congressional Budget Office, April 25, 2007
• David J. Hayes, Roger Ballentine, Jan Mazurek, "The Promise of Biofuels," Policy Report, Progressive Policy Institute, March 6, 2007
• "Energy Trends in Selected Manufacturing Sectors: Opportunities and Challenges for Environmentally Preferable Energy Outcomes," United States Environmental Protection Agency, March 2007
• David J. Hayes, "The Global Climate Change Marketplace: Moving Forward Without the United States," Policy Report, Progressive Policy Institute, February 2007
• "Uncertainty about Future Oil Supply Makes It Important to Develop a Strategy for Addressing a Peak and Decline in Oil Production," United States Government Accountability Office, February 2007
• Jan Mazurek, Roger Ballentine, Randolph Court, and Will Marshall, "A Progressive Energy Platform," Policy Report, Progressive Policy Institute, October 16, 2006
• "Evaluating the Role of Prices and R&D in Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions," Congressional Budget Office, September 2006
• "National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency," United States Environmental Protection Agency, July 2006

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