Environmental Regulation

Brochure

RAND Energy & Environment Researcher Guide

RAND researchers address pressing issues of relevance to U.S. and international audiences such as environmental quality and regulation, energy resources and systems, water resources and systems, climate change, and natural hazards and disasters.

News Release

Alternative Fossil Fuels Have Economic Potential but Uncertain Environmental Consequences

Alternative sources of fossil fuels such as oil sands and coal-to-liquids have significant economic promise, but the environmental consequences must also be considered.

Report

What is the Effect of Policy on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses?

The regulatory environment affects small business differently from the way it affects large ones, sometimes leading to unintended negative consequences. An improved understanding of this effect will help lawmakers develop policy designed to advance entrepreneurship.

News Release

RAND Says Further Study Warranted on Save the World Air Technology

May 3, 2007 news release: RAND Says Further Study Warranted on Save the World Air Technology.

Commentary

Green But Unsafe

Published commentary by RAND staff: Green But Unsafe, in Wall Street Journal, Europe Edition.

Journal Article

Smog Alert: The Challenges of Battling Ozone Pollution

Report

Transition Paths to a New Era of Green Industry: Technological and Policy Implications

This paper reproduces the talk delivered by the author at a Science Form on Science, Technology, and Innovation for Sustainable Development event in Johannesburg on August 31, 2002.

Report

Monitoring for Fine Particulate Matter

Particulate matter (PM) comes from a variety of sources and is a mixture of many pollutants made up of several different chemical species. Monitoring to determine whether an area has met EPA standards requires a comprehensive approach.

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.

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.

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.

Report

Fixing Superfund: The Effect of the Proposed Superfund Reform Act of 1994 on Transaction Costs

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.

Report

Hazardous Waste Policy: Unfinished Business and New Challenges

Hazardous waste policies have evolved in response to urgent environmental and political challenges and have promoted intense feelings and mistrust.

Research Brief

Two Shades of Green

The Fort Bragg case served as the basis for a broader study by RAND's Arroyo Center to help the Army formulate a proactive strategy for balancing military and environmental excellence.

Testimony

RAND Research on Superfund Transaction Costs: A Summary of Findings to Date

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

Private-Sector Cleanup Expenditures and Transaction Costs at 18 Superfund Sites

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

Superfund and Transaction Costs: The Experiences of Insurers and Very Large Industrial Firms

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

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

Report

Analyzing Environmental Policies for Chlorinated Solvents with a Model of Markets and Regulations

Concerns the regulation of the five most widely used chlorinated solvents.

Report

Understanding Superfund: A Progress Report

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.