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2010-07-20
Pew Center on Global Climate Change;
Outlines the benefits of a well-designed climate legislation for farmers by projecting market-driven requirements for greenhouse gas limitations, risk management concerns, cost containment mechanisms, and opportunities to realize net economic gains.
2009-12-17
Pew Center on Global Climate Change;
Examines how the Department of Energy has spent the $36.7 billion in climate- and energy-related funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Provides data on funds appropriated, awarded, and spent and jobs created or saved.
2003-07-01
Pew Center on Global Climate Change;
Discusses three divergent paths for U.S. energy supply and use from 2000 through 2035, and the effect of climate policy on the three scenarios.
2004-04-01
Pew Center on Global Climate Change;
Assesses the potential impacts of climate change on the U.S. market economy through the year 2100, including an estimate of its effects on productivity, investment, consumption and leisure.
2009-03-23
Tax Foundation;
Estimates the economic burden of a typical U.S. cap-and-trade system by income, age, region, and family type, as well as its impact on employment, household earnings, and economic output. Compares the impact of cap-and-trade with that of a carbon tax.
2011-06-21
CNA;
Examines the potential impact of climate change, including more disasters, economic stress, and social pressures, with respect to civilian and military response efforts. Calls for a coherent government approach and a strategic emphasis on long-term effect
2011-01-31
Pew Center on Global Climate Change;
Outlines the need to cut transportation emissions to limit climate change effects, mitigation options and technologies, policies to promote mitigation, and various scenarios for public attitudes, public policy, technological progress, and energy prices.
2011-08-30
What Works Collaborative;
Provides an overview of characteristics of urban sustainability research centers, including organizational structure, personnel capacity, finances, current objectives, and recent research topics. Considers policy implications.
2012-01-19
Earth Policy Institute;
We distort reality when we omit the health and environmental costs associated with burning fossil fuels from their prices. When governments actually subsidize their use, they take the distortion even further. Worldwide, direct fossil fuel subsidies added up to roughly $500 billion in 2010. Of this, supports on the production side totaled some $100 billion. Supports for consumption exceeded $400 billion, with $193 billion for oil, $91 billion for natural gas, $3 billion for coal, and $122 billion spent subsidizing the use of fossil fuel-generated electricity. All together, governments are shelling out nearly $1.4 billion per day to further destabilize the earth's climate.
2012-09-14
Earth Policy Institute;
High temperatures have combined with the worst drought in half a century to wreak havoc on American farms and ranches. Some 80 percent of U.S. farm and pasture land experienced drought.
2012-04-04
Earth Policy Institute;
A new picture is emerging in the U.S. power sector. In 2007, electricity generation from coal peaked, dropping by close to 4 percent annually between 2007 and 2011. Over the same time period, nuclear generation fell slightly, while natural gas-fired electricity grew by some 3 percent annually and hydropower by 7 percent. Meanwhile, wind-generated electricity grew by a whopping 36 percent each year. Multiple factors underlie this nascent shift in U.S. electricity production, including the global recession, increasing energy efficiency, and more economically recoverable domestic natural gas. But ultimately it is the increasing attractiveness of wind as an energy source that will drive it into prominence.
2013-02-05
World Resources Institute (WRI);
Climate change impacts in the United States are increasingly evident and come with steep economic and social costs. The frequency and intensity of extreme weather events has increased in recent years, bringing record-breaking heat, heavy precipitation, coastal flooding, severe droughts, and damaging wildfires.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), weather-related damages in the United States were $60 billion in 2011, and are expected to be significantly greater in 2012.
The mounting costs convey an unmistakable urgency to address climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). This report examines pathways for GHG reductions in the United States through actions taken at the federal and state levels without the need for new legislation from the U.S. Congress.
