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- Working Paper
CBO describes its recent update of parameters that characterize the relationship between emissions of carbon dioxide and changes in the price of those emissions.
- Cost Estimate
As Posted on the Website of the Senate Democratic Leadership on December 8, 2021
- Cost Estimate
As Posted on the Website of the House Committee on Rules on November 3, 2021 (Rules Committee Print 117-18), as Amended by Yarmuth Amendment 112
- Presentation
Presentation by Phillip Swagel, CBO’s Director, to the Council for Affordable Health Coverage.
- Blog Post
CBO’s Director, Phillip Swagel, discusses the agency’s budget and economic analysis during the pandemic.
- Presentation
Presentation by Phillip Swagel, CBO’s Director, at Brown University.
- Working Paper
Distributional Effects of Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions With a Carbon Tax: Working Paper 2021-11
This paper describes CBO’s method for measuring the distributional effects of a tax on carbon emissions and the agency’s rationale for choosing that method, while also comparing it with CBO’s prior method and methods used by other researchers.
- Presentation
CBO provides technical details about its methods for projecting the effect of climate change on the growth of real gross domestic product.
- Report
CBO outlines the main channels by which climate change and policies intended to mitigate or adapt to it affect the federal budget. Climate change increases budget deficits; investments in mitigation or adaptation could reduce those costs.
- Report
CBO presents its projections of the federal budget for the next 30 years if current laws governing taxes and spending generally did not change. Growth in revenues would be outpaced by growth in spending, leading to rising deficits and debt.