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     <title>RAND Research Topic: Environmental Legislation</title>
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   <title type="html">Opportunities for Alternative Fuels: The Roadmap for America&apos;s Energy Future</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT363.html</id>
   <published>Jun 3, 2011</published>
   <updated>Jun 3, 2011</updated>
   <summary type="html">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.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Paying for carbon emissions reduction</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP312.html</id>
   <published>Feb 23, 2011</published>
   <updated>Feb 23, 2011</updated>
   <summary type="html">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.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Economic Impact of Mexico City&apos;s Smoke-Free Law</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110070.html</id>
   <published>Feb 2, 2011</published>
   <updated>Feb 2, 2011</updated>
   <summary type="html">There is no statistically significant evidence that the Mexico City smoke-free law had a negative impact on restaurants&apos; income, employees&apos; wages and levels of employment.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Attention to Societal Priorities Can Help Guide Nuclear Waste Management Policy</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG970.html</id>
   <published>Nov 15, 2010</published>
   <updated>Nov 15, 2010</updated>
   <summary type="html">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. </summary>
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   <title type="html">Attention to Societal Priorities Can Help Guide Nuclear Waste Management Policy</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/news/press/2010/11/15.html</id>
   <published>Nov 15, 2010</published>
   <updated>Nov 15, 2010</updated>
   <summary type="html">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.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Policy Implications of Alternative Spent Nuclear Fuel Management Strategies</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT352.html</id>
   <published>Nov 8, 2010</published>
   <updated>Nov 8, 2010</updated>
   <summary type="html">Testimony presented before the Blue Ribbon Commission on America&apos;s Nuclear Future on November 15, 2010.</summary>
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   <title type="html">EPA Program Sought to Improve Environmental Performance of Public and Private Sectors</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR732.html</id>
   <published>May 23, 2010</published>
   <updated>May 23, 2010</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Evaluating Options for U.S. Greenhouse-Gas Mitigation Using Multiple Criteria</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP252.html</id>
   <published>Apr 13, 2009</published>
   <updated>Apr 13, 2009</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">The Implementation and Enforcement of Tobacco Control Laws: Policy Implications for Activists and the Industry</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19990607.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1998</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1998</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;The authors examine the process by which antitobacco laws and ordinances were implemented and enforced in seven states and nineteen localities.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Superfund Liability Reform: Implications for Transaction Costs and Site Cleanup</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT125.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1994</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1994</updated>
   <summary type="html">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.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Fixing Superfund: The Effect of the  Proposed Superfund Reform Act of 1994 on Transaction Costs</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR455.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1993</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1993</updated>
   <summary type="html">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.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Fixing Superfund: Getting the Formula Right</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9019.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1993</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1993</updated>
   <summary type="html">This research brief describes the contentious interactions among firms that generated or transported hazardous wastes and are thus liable for cleanup.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Private-Sector Cleanup Expenditures and Transaction Costs at 18 Superfund Sites</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR204.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1993</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1993</updated>
   <summary type="html">This report will be of interest to those evaluating Superfund&apos;s liability-based approach to cleaning up the thousands of abandoned or inactive sites across the United States that are contaminated with hazardous substances.</summary>
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   <title type="html">RAND Research on Superfund Transaction Costs: A Summary of Findings to Date</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT111.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1992</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1992</updated>
   <summary type="html">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.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Superfund and Transaction Costs: The Experiences of Insurers and Very Large Industrial Firms</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R4132.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1991</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1991</updated>
   <summary type="html">Congress enacted the Superfund program in 1980 to clean up the nation&apos;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.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Superfund: The Private-Sector Experience</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9017.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1991</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1991</updated>
   <summary type="html">This research brief examines the extent of the involvement of private parties with Superfund site cleanup.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Understanding Superfund: A Progress Report</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3838.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1988</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1988</updated>
   <summary type="html">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.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Understanding Superfund</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9010.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1988</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1988</updated>
   <summary type="html">This research brief describes a study that sought to determine the effects of Superfund&#8217;s liability-based system and its administrative procedures on the program&#8217;s pace and cost and on the nature of the remedies selected. </summary>
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   <title type="html">Our Disposable World: Talks on the Environment from a Conference Sponsored By the Junior League of Los Angeles and Rand Corporation</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19700001.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1969</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1969</updated>
   <summary type="html"></summary>
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