Tag Archives: Clean Air Act

A Golden Opportunity to Please Conservatives and Liberals Alike

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Robert Stavins

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a golden opportunity to opt for a smart, low-cost approach to fulfilling its mandate under a Supreme Court decision to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions linked with global … Continue reading >

Posted in Climate Change Policy, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy, Positive Political Economy | Tagged cap-and-trade, carbon dioxide, Clean Air Act, Columbia Law School, credits, endangerment finding, EPA, global climate change, greenhouse gases, Haiku model, market-based instruments, Massachusetts v EPA, Obama, offsets, regulation, Resources for the Future | Leave a comment

The Real Options for U.S. Climate Policy

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Robert Stavins

The time has not yet come to throw in the towel regarding the possible enactment in 2010 of meaningful economy-wide climate change policy (such as that found in the Waxman-Markey legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in June, … Continue reading >

Posted in Climate Change Policy, Economic Stimulus Policy, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy, Natural Resource Economics, Natural Resource Policy, Positive Political Economy | Tagged Assembly Bill 32, baseline-and-credit system, Best Available Control Technology, biofuels, Cap-and-Dividend, cap-and-trade, carbon capture and storage (CCS), carbon pricing, carbon tax, Clean Air Act, Clean Development Mechanism, Clean Energy Standards, CLEAR Act, cost-effectiveness, distortionary taxes, Dormant Commerce Clause, economic stimulus package, efficiency, emission-reduction-credit system, endangerment finding, energy security, Environment and Natural Resources Committee, Environmental Law Institute, environmental politics, ethanol, G20, global climate policy, Gulf oil spill, import allowance requirement, International Energy Agency, Kerry-Lieberman legislation, leaded gasoline phasedown, linkage of cap-and-trade systems, market failure, market-based environmental policies, Massachusetts v EPA, mobile source standards, National Bureau of Economic Research, new source performance standards, New Source Review, NIMBY, Obama Administration, oil import fee, output-based updating allocation, populism, President Barack Obama, President George H.W. Bush, price collar, principal-agent problem, Professor Lawrence Goulder, public nuisance litigation, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, regulation, Renewable Portfolio Standard, revenue-neutral taxes, sectoral approaches, Senator Jay Rockefeller, Senator Jeff Bingaman, Senator Lamar Alexander, Senator Lisa Murkowski, Senator Maria Cantwell, Senator Richard Lugar, Senator Susan Collins, Senator Thomas Carper, stepwise regulation, subsidies, sulfur dioxide, tailoring rule, technological change, technological diffusion, technology innovation, three-pollutant legislation, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Waxman-Markey legislation, Western Climate Initiative, World Resources Institute | 8 Comments

Any Hope for Meaningful U.S. Climate Policy? You be the Judge.

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Robert Stavins

The current conventional wisdom – broadly echoed by the news media and the blogosphere – is that comprehensive, economy-wide CO2 cap-and-trade legislation is dead in the current U.S. Congress, and perhaps for the next several years. Watch out for conventional … Continue reading >

Posted in Climate Change Policy, Energy Policy, Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy | Tagged allowance allocation, Cap-and-Dividend, cap-and-trade, Clean Air Act, CLEAR Act, Coal, Congressional Review Act of 1996, Contract with America, conventional wisdom, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Accord, cost-effectiveness, criteria air pollutants, disapproval resolution, distortionary taxes, distributional analysis, distributional equity, endangerment finding, environmental politics, externalities, financial regulatory reform, global climate policy, health care policy, import allowance requirement, market failure, market-based environmental policies, Massachusetts v EPA, Obama Administration, political economy, populism, President Barack Obama, regulation, Renewable Portfolio Standard, revenue-neutral taxes, RGGI, Senator Lisa Murkowski, Senator Maria Cantwell, Senator Susan Collins, Sky Trust, tailoring rule, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, U.S. Supreme Court, upstream, Waxman-Markey legislation, White House | 14 Comments

Policies Can Work in Strange Ways

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Robert Stavins

Whether the policy domain is global climate change or local hazardous waste, it’s exceptionally important to understand the interaction between public policies and technological change in order to assess the effects of laws and regulations on environmental performance. Several years … Continue reading >

Posted in Climate Change Policy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy | Tagged chlorine, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Cluster Rule, Compensation, Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, econometric analysis, environmental politics, externalities, global climate policy, green jobs, hazardous waste, Minamata, Montreal Protocol, pulp and paper, regulation, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, technological change, Toxics Release Inventory | 2 Comments

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A Golden Opportunity to Please Conservatives and Liberals Alike

The Real Options for U.S. Climate Policy

Any Hope for Meaningful U.S. Climate Policy? You be the Judge.

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