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Climate Regulation of the Electricity Industry : A Comparative View from Australia, Great Britain, South Korea, and the United States

Davies, Lincoln L. - 2017

Climate regulation of the electricity sector is one of the most important growing — and rapidly changing — areas of law and policy today. This is both because of the critical role that electricity plays in modern society, acting as economic lifeblood, and because of electricity's part in...

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Compensation for Electricity Consumers Under a U.S. CO2 Emissions Cap

Paul, Anthony C. - 2014

Policies to cap emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the U.S. economy could pose significant costs on the electricity sector, which contributes roughly 40 percent of total CO2 emissions in the U.S. Using a detailed simulation model of the electricity sector, we evaluate alternative ways that...

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Assessing the Impact of US Ethanol on Fossil Fuel Markets : A Structural VAR Approach

McPhail, Lihong Lu - 2015

Despite the growing importance of biofuels, the effect of biofuels on fossilfuel markets is not fully understood. We develop a joint structural Vector Auto Regression (VAR) model of the global crude oil, US gasoline, and USethanol markets to examine whether the USethanol market has had any...

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GHG Trading Framework for the U.S. Biofuels Sector

Kumarappan, Subbu - 2015

Substitution of petroleum fuels with biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel has been shown to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These GHG reductions can be traded in the emerging carbon markets, and methodologies for quantifying and trading are still being developed. The main challenges in...

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The Evolution and Anatomy of Recent Climate Change Bills in the U.S. Senate : Critique and Recommendations

Richards, Kenneth R.; Richards, Stephanie - 2019

The United States' current financial conditions notwithstanding, climate change remains at the forefront of our national policy agenda. Congress has already considered comprehensive climate legislation in the recent past; during the 110th Congress, three climate change bills were considered in...

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Emerging U.S. Climate Policy : Where We are and How We Got Here

Clemm, Geoffrey; Smith, Mark Griffin - 2009

After eight years of non-engagement, the new administration and the U.S. Congress, led by a majority in the President’s party, are rapidly developing climate policy legislation. This paper summarizes past efforts to establish a national climate policy in the United States as well as the major...

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U.S. Climate Change Law and Policy : Possible Paths Forward

Freeman, Jody; Konschnik, Kate - 2014

, agriculture and forestry, non-climate international agreements, adaptation, geoengineering, and energy regulation), and brings …

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What Did the Market Buy? Cost Savings Under the U.S. Tradeable Permits Program for Sulfur Dioxide

Keohane, Nathaniel O. - 2004

Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act instituted a nationwide system of tradeable pollution permits for sulfur dioxide emitted by electric power plants. This paper asks: What were the cost savings from using a market-based instrument, rather than a more conventional prescriptive approach? Using an...

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Productivity and Profitability Changes in U.S. Electric Utility Plants Under the So2 Allowance System

Kumar, Surender - 2014

We examine the productivity and profitability changes in the US electric generating plants during the SO2 trading regime. Input distance function is used to compute the cumulative Malmquist productivity and Fisher productivity indexes. By exploiting the duality between cost and input distance...

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The Environmental Rights Provisions of U.S. State Constitutions : A Comparative Analysis

Dernbach, John C. - 2023

concerning the manner in which the environment and natural resources are to be governed (e.g., public funding, eminent domain …, public trust, access to water, legislative responsibility). But only six declare a right to a quality environment. These are … shows that while four of these states treat their right to a certain quality environment as judicially enforceable, two …

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