Environmental Legislation

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REPORT

Opportunities for Alternative Fuels: The Roadmap for America's Energy Future — Jun 3, 2011

Achieving the potential economic and national security benefits offered by alternative fuels requires that their domestic production must be an appreciable fraction of domestic demand for liquid fuels. Alternative fuels derived from oil shale and coal have the potential to meet that important criterion.

REPORT

Paying for carbon emissions reduction — Feb 23, 2011

This paper explores how much British citizens might be willing to pay for carbon emissions reduction, and the implication of this for climate change policies.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Economic Impact of Mexico City's Smoke-Free Law — Feb 2, 2011

There is no statistically significant evidence that the Mexico City smoke-free law had a negative impact on restaurants' income, employees' wages and levels of employment.

REPORT

Attention to Societal Priorities Can Help Guide Nuclear Waste Management Policy — Nov 15, 2010

To break the impasse over how to deal with spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear power plants policymakers should focus on how various waste management strategies address societal priorities related to nuclear energy.

NEWS RELEASE

Attention to Societal Priorities Can Help Guide Nuclear Waste Management Policy — Nov 15, 2010

To break the impasse over how to deal with spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear power plants, policymakers should focus on how various waste management strategies address societal priorities related to nuclear energy.

REPORT

Policy Implications of Alternative Spent Nuclear Fuel Management Strategies — Nov 8, 2010

Testimony presented before the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future on November 15, 2010.

REPORT

EPA Program Sought to Improve Environmental Performance of Public and Private Sectors — May 23, 2010

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ended a voluntary national program that encouraged facilities to improve all aspects of their environmental performance. The significant environmental challenges that the U.S. faces require it to continue to seek complements to traditional regulatory approaches.

REPORT

Evaluating Options for U.S. Greenhouse-Gas Mitigation Using Multiple Criteria — Apr 13, 2009

Devising policies to mitigate greenhouse gases responsible for climate change is one of the great challenges facing the U.S. Options that are effective and politically feasible must not just be cost-effective but also consider the realities of passing major federal legislation with widespread impacts on U.S. producers and consumers.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

The Implementation and Enforcement of Tobacco Control Laws: Policy Implications for Activists and the Industry — Dec 31, 1998

The authors examine the process by which antitobacco laws and ordinances were implemented and enforced in seven states and nineteen localities.

REPORT

Superfund Liability Reform: Implications for Transaction Costs and Site Cleanup — Dec 31, 1994

This publication contains the written statement of Lloyd S. Dixon submitted on March 10, 1995, to the Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Control and Risk Assessment of the United States Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

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Fixing Superfund: The Effect of the Proposed Superfund Reform Act of 1994 on Transaction Costs — Dec 31, 1993

This report focuses on the possible effect of the proposed Superfund Reform Act of 1994 on transaction costs -- costs resulting not from cleanup but from assigning liability for cleanup among the various parties.

RESEARCH BRIEF

Fixing Superfund: Getting the Formula Right — Dec 31, 1993

This research brief describes the contentious interactions among firms that generated or transported hazardous wastes and are thus liable for cleanup.

REPORT

Private-Sector Cleanup Expenditures and Transaction Costs at 18 Superfund Sites — Jan 1, 1993

This report will be of interest to those evaluating Superfund's liability-based approach to cleaning up the thousands of abandoned or inactive sites across the United States that are contaminated with hazardous substances.

REPORT

RAND Research on Superfund Transaction Costs: A Summary of Findings to Date — Dec 31, 1992

This publication contains the written statement of Lloyd S. Dixon submitted on November 4, 1993 to the Subcommittee on Superfund, Recycling, and Solid Waste of the United States Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

REPORT

Superfund and Transaction Costs: The Experiences of Insurers and Very Large Industrial Firms — Dec 31, 1991

Congress enacted the Superfund program in 1980 to clean up the nation's worst inactive hazardous-waste sites. Superfund uses a liability-based approach intended to help government tap private-sector resources to finance and conduct cleanups.

RESEARCH BRIEF

Superfund: The Private-Sector Experience — Dec 31, 1991

This research brief examines the extent of the involvement of private parties with Superfund site cleanup.

REPORT

Understanding Superfund: A Progress Report — Dec 31, 1988

The Superfund program is intended to handle emergencies arising from the release of hazardous wastes, to provide long-term cleanup for a limited number of sites, and to encourage more responsible disposal of hazardous wastes in the future.

RESEARCH BRIEF

Understanding Superfund — Dec 31, 1988

This research brief describes a study that sought to determine the effects of Superfund’s liability-based system and its administrative procedures on the program’s pace and cost and on the nature of the remedies selected.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Our Disposable World: Talks on the Environment from a Conference Sponsored By the Junior League of Los Angeles and Rand Corporation — Dec 31, 1969