Climate and Environment
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How CBO Uses the ReEDS Model to Analyze Policies in the Electric Power Sector: Working Paper 2024-02
This working paper provides an overview of CBO-ReEDS, an adapted version of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Regional Energy Deployment System (NREL’s ReEDS) model for analyzing policies in the electric power sector.
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Modeling the Demand for Electric Vehicles and the Supply of Charging Stations in the United States: Working Paper 2023-06
This paper presents a simulation model of the markets for light-duty electric vehicles and the associated public charging infrastructure, as well as the network interactions between them.
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How Carbon Dioxide Emissions Would Respond to a Tax or Allowance Price: An Update: Working Paper 2021-16
CBO describes its recent update of parameters that characterize the relationship between emissions of carbon dioxide and changes in the price of those emissions.
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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.
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CBO’s Projection of the Effect of Climate Change on U.S. Economic Output: Working Paper 2020-06
This paper describes how CBO constructed its projection of the effect of climate change on U.S. output, how the projected effect should be interpreted, limitations of the analysis, and the central climate-change scenario that CBO used.
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CBO’s Approach to Estimating Expected Hurricane Damage: Working Paper 2016-02
How does CBO estimate increases in hurricane damage between now and 2075? This working paper documents the analysis underlying CBO’s report Potential Increases in Hurricane Damage in the United States: Implications for the Federal Budget.
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China’s Growing Energy Demand: Implications for the United States: Working Paper 2015-05
This paper examines trends in China’s energy consumption, the implications of those trends for U.S. households and businesses, and policy options that might help minimize adverse effects.
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Pricing Freight Transport to Account for External Costs: Working Paper 2015-03
This study examines policy options that could address the unpriced external costs of transporting freight by truck and by rail, including weight and distance charges, diesel fuel taxes, container fees, and the tire tax.
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Market Efficiency and the U.S. Market for Sulfur Dioxide Allowances: Working Paper 2014-01
Focusing on the U.S. sulfur dioxide allowance market, this paper models allowance prices to determine the influence of market fundamentals and administrative announcements on allowance price level and volatility.
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International Trade and Carbon Leakage: Working Paper 2013-08
Under a broad-based carbon tax or cap-and-trade program, some of the reduction in U.S. emissions would probably be offset by increases in foreign emissions, a phenomenon known as carbon leakage.