EPA Tries to Silence Employees Who (Weakly) Criticize Cap-And-Trade
Obama’s EPA finds itself embroiled in a controversy that recalls the Bush Administration: trying to control what the agency’s employees can say about climate change. Today’s controversy is more...
View ArticleSquare Pegs in Round Holes
The Western states face two reciprocating and overarching problems in water resources policy. First, water is an increasingly scarce resource facing sharply competitive needs. Climate change is...
View ArticleIs It Time To Re-Think Additionality?
Many organizations have announced voluntary greenhouse gas emission reduction goals by which they aim to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases despite the absence of any legal requirement to do...
View ArticleUsing Offsets with a Carbon Tax? Use what works.
Proposals to adopt a fee on emissions of greenhouse gases (also called "Carbon Taxes") have made headlines, with both "conservative Republicans" and "liberal Democrats" releasing ideas. An elevated...
View ArticleWater Quality: Wading Into Trading
For over 20 years EPA has been promoting water quality trading – with particular emphasis on nutrients and sediment – as a way to improve water quality at reduced costs. Trading is based on the simple...
View ArticleStrong Headwinds Face Water Quality Trading in the Chesapeake
The Chesapeake Bay watershed covers 64,000 square miles in parts of Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. When the six states and the...
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