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