Research that Informs Business and Public Policy- Why Did Apple Pay so Much for 130 MW of Solar? Is Google Part of the Answer? Catherine Wolfram
- One university’s attempt to reduce energy waste at work Meredith Fowlie
- The Job Creation Shuffle Severin Borenstein
- How (and who) will pay for our energy infrastructure? James Bushnell
- Football – the Ultimate Demand Side Management Program? Maximilian Auffhammer
- Can Mammograms Teach Us Something Useful about Energy Efficiency? Catherine Wolfram
- Oil price crash shows the challenge of breaking addiction Severin Borenstein
- Energy efficiency is a tough sell- Even when it is “free”! Meredith Fowlie
- Raise the Gas Tax Lucas Davis
- Maybe it’s not all just about dollars and cents Maximilian Auffhammer
Tag Archives: cap-and-trade
The multibillion dollar question: How to spend carbon revenues?
Debates over carbon pricing policies tend to focus on the costs imposed on firms and households. When a carbon tax or cap and trade program is introduced, firms see energy-related operating costs rise, drivers pay (cents) more at the pump, … Continue reading
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Tagged cap-and-trade, climate policy, energy policy, greenhouse gas (GHG)
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The Big Stick: Cap and Trade in the Peoples Republic of Carbon
Many of us have argued that a patchwork of national or subnational climate policies is a largely pointless undertaking unless the big two (United States and China) are part of that patchwork. The US has taken some steps towards national … Continue reading
Californians Can Handle the Truth About Gas Prices
A few weeks ago, Jim blogged about the concerns that cap-and-trade will drive up gas prices in California. In late June, those concerns resulted in a letter from Assemblymember Perea and 15 other Democrats asking the California Air Resources Board … Continue reading
Cap-and-Trade’s Moment of Truth
With the looming expansion of its cap-and-trade program to transportation fuels like gasoline, California is fast approaching a significant moment of truth for its climate policy. This has some people nervous, and there are growing rumblings of proposals to delay, perhaps … Continue reading
What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
[This post is co-authored with my three collaborators in cap-and-trade work for the California Air Resources Board: Frank Wolak, Jim Bushell and Matt Zaragoza-Watkins.] California’s year-and-a-half old cap-and-trade market for reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs) has drawn renewed interest over … Continue reading
Swapping negawatts for megawatts under the EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan
If you are embarking on a new weight loss plan, it typically makes sense to pursue a mixed strategy of diet and exercise. If you are working to get your finances under control, you should look for ways to increase … Continue reading
EPA and climate regulation: Mind the gaps
Last week, following years of anticipation, the shoe finally dropped on EPA carbon regulations. Two or three things are notable in this. First, we’re on the road to a national climate policy! Second, EPA is going out of its way to … Continue reading
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Tagged cap-and-trade, carbon, climate policy, emissions, leakage, low carbon fuel standard, reshuffling
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