Prepared with the National Policy Workgroup of the National Recycling Coalition. September 1999. Analysis identifies and quantifies a number of direct and indirect subsidies that put recycled materials at a disadvantage to virgin materials.
Published in Waste News Op-Ed, August 6, 2001. A host of new subsidies to converting a wide variety of biomass-based wastes into energy were proposed in legislation during 2001; many of these policies are in the newest energy bills before Congress again during 2003. By increasing the returns for…
Prepared while at Industrial Economics, for the Office of Policy Planning and Evaluation, US EPA, October 1996. Pat Bradley of the Office of Water and Robert Benson of the Office of Policy Planning and Evaluation served as project managers. Also available through EPA.
Doug Koplow with research assistance from Alexi Lownie
Posted on:
10/16/2008
Prepared while at Industrial Economics, for the Office of Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, February 1998, EPA 833-R-98-001.
Efforts to conserve water often focus on installing more efficient appliances or on removing subsidies to irrigation water. Often overlooked is the role that proper…
by Marshall Goldberg, for
the Renewable Energy Policy Project. July 2000 Research Report No. 11.
Links to supporting data tables: A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7.
Published in Resource Recycling, November 1994. Detailed assessment of how federal subsidies to the Bonneville Power Administration reduce the price of primary aluminum and with it the incentive to recycle the metal. The article estimated that the resulting undervaluation of embedded energy savings…
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.
Released jointly with Public Citizen, Friends of the Earth, US PIRG, and Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Despite its claim of energy “too cheap to meter,” the nuclear power industry continues to be
dependent on taxpayer handouts to survive. Since its inception in 1948, the nuclear industry has…
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.
Article provides a normalization and comparison of all of the major quantitative studies on US subsidies to fossil fuels over the last 25 years; a summary and discussion of multi-country efforts to model the climate change benefits…
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.
