Policy Evolution Under the Clean Air Act
The US Clean Air Act, passed in 1970 with strong bipartisan support, was the first environmental law to give the federal government a serious regulatory role, established the architecture of the US ai
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A cost-effective way to power generation
Creating generation assets with the lowest unit cost is linked to optimising plant capacities and using private investment
Double Counting and the Paris Agreement Rulebook
The article discusses about the 2015 Paris Agreement in which the rule was made for all countries to provide detailed information on their climate change control targets and submitting the progress re
Saudi Arabia’s Energy Infrastructure Under Attack. What’s Next?
If a single armada of drones can make its way across the Saudi airspace undetected and successfully hit targets with surgical precision and maximum damage, then one must conclude the country's vulnera
Valuing US National Parks and Programs: America’s Best Investment
This book provides the first comprehensive economic valuation of US National Parks (including Monuments, Seashores, Lakeshores, Recreation Areas, Historic sites) and National Park Service (NPS) Progra
Multilateral Parametric Climate Risk Insurance: A Tool to Facilitate Agreement About Deployment of Solar Geoengineering
States will disagree about deployment of solar geoengineering, technologies that would reflect a small portion of incoming sunlight to reduce risks of climate change, and most disagreements will be gr
Stochastic Cost-Benefit Analysis of Urban Waste-To-Energy Systems
Municipal solid waste generation is a rapidly increasing challenge that is leading to severe pollution and environmental degradation in many urban areas of developing countries.
Cross-product Manipulation in Electricity Markets, Microstructure Models and Asymmetric Information
Electricity market manipulation enforcement actions have moved from conventional analysis of generator market power in real-time physical markets to materialallegations of sustained cross-product pric
Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings
Economics of the Environment, Seventh Edition is a compendium of the best, most timely articles by a dream team of environmental economists, together with an original introductory chapter by the edito
The Future of U.S. Carbon-Pricing Policy: Normative Assessment and Positive Prognosis
There is widespread agreement among economists – and a diverse set of other policy analysts – that at least in the long run, an economy-wide carbon pricing system will be an essential element of any n
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