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Cutting Carbon, Take Two: A Brief Guide To Federal Electricity-Sector Climate Policy Without Cap-And-Trade, Nathan Richardson, Joshua Linn
Cutting Carbon, Take Two: A Brief Guide To Federal Electricity-Sector Climate Policy Without Cap-And-Trade, Nathan Richardson, Joshua Linn
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This paper explores federal policies, other than a carbon price, for reducing emissions from the electric power sector. These policies fall into two major categories: policies that encourage the development of non‐ or low‐emitting energy sources, and regulatory policies under existing legal authority (primarily the Clean Air Act). The paper provides an overview of policy options and a few concrete proposals, along with a summary of insights from economists on their advantages and disadvantages. Economists generally disfavor investment subsidies, but comparing other policy options, including regulatory approaches, technology mandates, and production subsidies, is complex. Excluding existing clean generation from incentive …
The Dynamics And Global Implications Of Subglobal Carbon-Restricting Regimes, Juscelino F. Colares
The Dynamics And Global Implications Of Subglobal Carbon-Restricting Regimes, Juscelino F. Colares
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The European Union and Australia have enacted comprehensive carbon-restricting reforms that will affect both domestic and foreign industries. After describing these reforms in detail, the article develops a microeconomic analytical model that explains the impact these regimes have on the dynamics of inter-firm competition in carbon-restricting nations and how they will also influence technology choices by certain industries in carbon-friendly nations. Specifically, exporters and producers operating in vertically-integrated industries in carbon-friendly nations will increasingly elect carbon-efficient technologies to minimize costs as they adjust to a changing international regulatory environment. The article hypothesizes that this shift in the carbon intensity of …
Do You Know What's On Your Plate?: The Importance Of Regulating The Processes Of Food Production, Martha Dragich
Do You Know What's On Your Plate?: The Importance Of Regulating The Processes Of Food Production, Martha Dragich
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This article argues that the current regulatory approach-focusing on the supposed equivalence of new foods to traditional ones-is unduly narrow, particularly given the characteristics of the modem food system. To achieve the broad objectives of the FDCA in the context of the industrialized, highly processed, and global food supply of the twenty-first century requires adopting a broader understanding of consumer protection needs with respect to food. The FDCA itself is written in very broad terms and provides much of the authority needed today. The FDA's enforcement capacity, however, already is severely strained.52 Moreover, the scientific basis for some process- oriented …
Conservative Principles For Environmental Reform,, Jonathan H. Adler
Conservative Principles For Environmental Reform,, Jonathan H. Adler
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Major environmental policy reform is long overdue. The current regulatory architecture was erected in the 1970s. Since then meaningful reforms have been few and far between. A few reforms and regulatory expansions were adopted in the 1980s, and Congress enacted significant reforms to the Clean Air Act in 1990. Only the most minor environmental bills have been enacted since then.