With a main report
and a technical appendix covering more than 600 pages, this is
among the most detailed analyses of government subsidies to energy
produced to date. The summary report provides an…
Prepared for the National Recycling Coalition, 2001.
Subsidies to methane recovery at solid waste landfills is often supported on the grounds that it encourages energy diversification and prevents the emissions of important greenhouse gases to the environment. However, this analysis suggests that…
Extremely detailed, widely peer-reviewed, examination of subsidies to oil in the United States throughout every stage of the fuel cycle. Includes plain-language explanations of how different types of subsidy programs operate and why the are valuable to the recipient industries. This is useful…
Learn about the power of Policy-Enhanced Investing
to turn nuclear power from the dog of Wall Street into the
mightily-hyped favored solution for all of the US' energy woes in this tongue-and-cheek strategic review of the industry.
Updated estimates of subsidies to nuclear energy showing that 60-90% of the cost of new nuclear power is the result of public subsidy rather than private investment. Prepared for the Nuclear Policy Institute Symposium on Nuclear Power and Global Warming, November 2005.
Doug Koplow, Earth Track, Inc. and Alexi Lownie, Industrial Economics, Inc.
Posted on:
9/29/2008
Prepared with Industrial Economics for the US EPA's Office of Water and the Office of Planning, Analysis, and Accountability. May 2002.
Pretreatment regulations require industries and municipalities to remove specialized and hard-to-treat pollutants before they are allowed to send their wastewater to…
Presentation (in Powerpoint) at the 2nd Annual OECD Technical Expert Meeting on Environmentally Harmful Subsidies, Paris, 3-4 November 2003. Provides and overview of the political dynamics of subsidies and the structural challenges to reforming them.
Prepared
for the United Nations Environment Programme under the auspices of the
Economics and Trade Branch's Working Group on Economic
Instruments. 2004.
Guidance manual for non-technical staff
in developing countries to enhance their understanding of the concepts
and applications for economic…
General
introduction to the measurement and concepts associated with government
subsidization of energy industries. Includes a review of a generic fuel
cycle which identifies the most common types of subsidies at each stage
and which energy types they tend to support within a global context.
Also…
Program
line review of federal fiscal subsidies to energy for fiscal year 2003, to support the work of the National Commission on Energy Policy. Aggregate subsidies were worth
between $37 and $64 billion to the energy sector. Analysis includes main tax expenditure and programmatic subsidies. Time…
This paper proposes two changes that I believe will make Tsunami relief efforts more effective. The first moves the detailed logistics system of the UN relief coordinator into the public domain. The objective of this change is to establish increased ability for outside groups to provide technology…
Examines
the political drivers behind subsidy proliferation in the US federal
system and a variety of options to improve transparency and
contestability of the subsidy programs. Paper contains ballpark
values for US federal subsidies by energy type, based on an update of US energy subsidy estimates…
Detailed review of state and federal subsidies, prepared for the Global Subsidies Initiative. Subsidy costs per unit fossil fuel or GHG displaced exceed $500 per mt of CO2-equivalent. Policy structures are duplicative and generally linked to production rather than to the carbon displacement…
Government policies should work in tandem with market forces to achieve an adequate energy supply mix that is cleaner and more diverse than what preceeded it. In reality, thousands of government policies in place around the world act counter to stated objectives regarding energy security…
