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Examining Different Forms of Organizations for Managing and Disposing of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive ...
A federal government corporation and an independent government agency are the two most promising models for a new organization to manage and dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in the United States.
Jan 11, 2013
Report
Examining Different Forms of Organizations for Managing and Disposing of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste
A federal government corporation and an independent government agency are the two most promising models for a new organization to manage and dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in the United States.
Jan 11, 2013
Research Brief
Options for an Organization to Manage and Dispose of Radioactive Materials
RAND researchers describe the attributes of potential organizational models and the steps needed to choose the form of a new organization charged with managing and disposing of commercial and defense high-level radioactive materials.
Jan 11, 2013
Journal Article
Shared Socio-economic Pathways Offer New Approach for Climate Change Analysis
Developing an integrated perspective on mitigation, adaptation and residual climate impacts could be aided by identifying a set of global narratives and socio-economic pathways offering scalability to different regional contexts.
Oct 1, 2012
Testimony
Opportunities for Alternative Fuels: The Roadmap for America's Energy Future
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.
Jun 3, 2011
Report
How Much Are People Willing to Pay to Reduce Carbon Emissions?
To combat climate change, the British government has thus far valued the cost of carbon emissions based on how much people should pay, rather than how much they are willing to pay, or the value they place on carbon emissions reduction. An analysis of a series of RAND Europe studies suggests there is an opportunity for a large consumer surplus — a social benefit — by introducing a carbon tax to pay for the damages caused by carbon emissions.
Feb 23, 2011
Journal Article
Economic Impact of Mexico City's Smoke-Free Law
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.
Feb 3, 2011
News Release
Attention to Societal Priorities Can Help Guide Nuclear Waste Management Policy
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.
Nov 15, 2010
Testimony
Policy Implications of Alternative Spent Nuclear Fuel Management Strategies
Testimony presented before the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future on November 15, 2010.
Nov 8, 2010
Report
Attention to Societal Priorities Can Help Guide Nuclear Waste Management Policy
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.
Nov 5, 2010
Report
EPA Program Sought to Improve Environmental Performance of Public and Private Sectors
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.
May 7, 2010
Report
Evaluating Options for U.S. Greenhouse-Gas Mitigation Using Multiple Criteria
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.
Apr 3, 2009
Report
The Financial Implications of Releasing Small Firms and Small-Volume Contributors from Superfund Liability
Estimates the number of PRPs that would be released and the cleanup costs that would be transferred to the Fund by recent proposals.
Jan 1, 2000
Research Brief
Releasing Small Firms from Superfund Liability: What Will It Cost?
Provides information about proposals to exempt small firms and small-volume contributors, including the number and proportion of business firms that would be released, the proposals' dollar costs, and their effect on firms that would remain liable.
Jan 1, 2000
Journal Article
The Implementation and Enforcement of Tobacco Control Laws: Policy Implications for Activists and the Industry
The authors examine the process by which antitobacco laws and ordinances were implemented and enforced in seven states and nineteen localities.
Jan 1, 1999
Report
Risk Premiums for Environmental Liability: Does Superfund Increase the Cost of Capital?
Superfund liability may impose financial risk on investors and thereby increase firms' costs of capital.
Jan 1, 1999
Report
Managing Waste With and Without Plutonium Separation
This study examines whether reprocessing and plutonium recycle will make radioactive waste management more effective and economical.
Jan 1, 1999
Journal Article
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980. Does Superfund Increase the Cost of Capital?
Superfund liability may impose financial risk on investors and thereby increase firms' costs of capital.
Jan 1, 1998
Testimony
Superfund Liability Reform: Implications for Transaction Costs and Site Cleanup
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.
Jan 1, 1995
Research Brief
Fixing Superfund: Getting the Formula Right
This research brief describes the contentious interactions among firms that generated or transported hazardous wastes and are thus liable for cleanup.
Jan 1, 1994

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Environmental Legislation

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Researcher Spotlight

Craig A. Bond

Research Quality Assurance (QA) Manager, RAND Arroyo Center

Craig Bond is an applied microeconomist who specializes in natural resource and environmental economics, including stochastic dynamic modeling, resource valuation, consumer and producer choice, and applied welfare economics. He is also a professor of policy analysis at Pardee RAND Graduate School.
Debra Knopman

Adjunct Engineer

Debra Knopman is an adjunct engineer at RAND, co-chair of the board of the Henry Luce Foundation, and a professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.

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