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- Presentation
Senior Advisor Terry M. Dinan's presentation at the Conference on the Economics of Carbon Taxes
- Cost Estimate
Pay-As-You-Go Effects for S. 3525, as Introduced on September 12, 2012
- Working Paper
Offsetting a Carbon Tax’s Costs on Low-Income Households
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on July 25, 2012
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee Environment and Public Works on July 25, 2012 S. 1735 would authorize the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to convey certain federal properties to the state of Mississippi. Enacting S. 1735 would affect direct spending; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures apply to the bill. CBO estimates, however, that the net impact on direct spending would be insignificant over the 2013-2022 period. Enacting S. 1735 would not affect revenues or spending subject to appropriation.
- Working Paper
Options for Modernizing Military Weather Satellites
- Blog Post
CBO estimates that federal policies to promote the manufacture and purchase of electric vehicles (including some policies that support other types of fuel-efficient vehicles) will have a total budgetary cost of about $7.5 billion through 2019. Tax credits for buying electric vehicles—which account for about one-fourth of that budgetary cost—are likely to have the greatest impact on vehicle sales. Today CBO released a study on the effects of federal tax credits for the purchase of electric vehicles. CBO finds that:
- Report
CBO's report assesses how the credits affect the relative cost of owning an electric vehicle, and how cost-effectively the credits reduce gasoline consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
- Working Paper
Addressing Market Barriers to Energy Efficiency in Buildings
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on August 1, 2012 H.R. 6194 would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to seek critical-use exemptions under the Montreal Protocol for applications submitted to the agency for the production, importation, and consumption of methyl bromide.