Geoscience Reference
In-Depth Information
8
Burtraw, Dallas, and Matt Woerman. US Status on Climate Change Mitigation. Washington
DC: Resources for the Future, October 2012. http://www.rff.org/RFF/Documents/RFF-DP-
12-48.pdf.
9
White House. ―Memorandum for the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency:
Power Sector Carbon Pollution Standards.‖ June 25, 2013.
10
For more information on these rules, see CRS Report R43127, EPA Standards for Greenhouse
Gas Emissions from Power Plants: Many Questions, Some Answers, by James E.
McCarthy.
11
See, for example, Tarr, Jeremy et al., Regulating CO2 under Section 111(d): Options, Limits,
and Impacts. Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University.
January 2013; and Lashof, Daniel A., et al. Closing the Power Plant Carbon Pollution
Loophole: Smart Ways the Clean Air Act Can Clean Up America's Biggest Climate
Polluters. Natural Resources Defense Council. 2012.
12
Energy Information Administration. Net Generation by Other Renewable Sources: Total (All
Sectors), 2003-April 2013. Extracted June 25, 2013. Data available at http://www.eia.gov/
electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t= epmt_1_01_a.
13
See CRS Report R41668, Keystone XL Pipeline Project: Key Issues, by Paul W. Parfomak et
al.
14
For analysis of the emissions implications of the Keystone pipelines, see CRS Report R42611,
Oil Sands and the Keystone XL Pipeline: Background and Selected Environmental Issues,
coordinated by Jonathan L. Ramseur.
15
White House. Remarks by the President on Climate Change. (transcript) Georgetown
University, Washington DC. June 25, 2013. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/
2013/06/25/remarks-president-climate-change.
16
For more on this topic in the FY2013 budget proposal, see CRS Report R42374, Oil and
Natural Gas Industry Tax Issues in the FY2013 Budget Proposal, by Robert Pirog.
17
Energy Policy Act (EPAct) of 2005, Title XVII, §1703.
18
EOP, op. cit., p. 7.
19
EPA, op.cit.
20
See CRS Report R40506, Cars, Trucks, and Climate: EPA Regulation of Greenhouse Gases
from Mobile Sources, by James E. McCarthy and Brent D. Yacobucci.
21
See CRS Report R40155, Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS): Overview and Issues, by Randy
Schnepf and Brent D. Yacobucci.
22
See CRS Report R40813, Methane Capture: Options for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction,
by Kelsi Bracmort et al.
23
Directed by Presidential Memorandum, ―Implementation of Energy Savings Projects and
Performance-Based Contracting for Energy Savings.‖ December 2, 2011.
24
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/sustainability.
25
See GAO. Climate Change: Various Adaptation Efforts Are Under Way at Key Natural
Resource Management Agencies, May 31, 2013. http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-
253.
26
For more about these funds, see CRS Report RL31116, Water Infrastructure Needs and
Investment: Review and Analysis of Key Issues, by Claudia Copeland and Mary Tiemann.
27
See GAO. Climate Change: Future Federal Adaptation Efforts Could Better Support Local
Infrastructure Decision Makers, April 12, 2013. http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-242.
28
EOP, op.cit., p. 14.
29
White House. Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government
Information. May 9, 2013.
