Taking Stock of the Biofuels Boom.
Article for the Interpress News Service. (June 2007).
Earth Track Document
Critique of DOE loan guarantee program.
Formal comments outlining market distortions and structural weaknesses in DOE's multi-billion dollar program to subsidize favored energy technologies. Authorized under Title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the program creates a huge potential windfall to the nuclear sector. Also accessible on DOE site. (July 2007).
Biofuels - At What Cost? Government support for ethanol and biodiesel in the United States: 2007 Update.
Report. Summary slides from release. Growing production and more subsidies converge to trigger an estimated $93 billion in support to ethanol and biodiesel for the 2006-12 period. The report also contains a detailed review of the large and potentially environmentally harmful biofuels subsidies in the pending Energy and Farm bills. Prepared fo the Global Subsidies Initiative. (Oct. 2007).
Government Subsidies to Nuclear Power: A Case Study of UniStar's Calvert Cliffs III Reactor.
Draft presentation for the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. Comments welcome. (Nov. 2007).
Energy Subsidies: How Much Does Nuclear Power Have in Common with Ethanol?
Presentation
for the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center evaluating
similarities in these two heavily subsidized energy resources. (Jan.
2008).
MA Bioenergy Initiative Requires Restructuring to Ensure Energy Market Neutrality and Cost Efficiency.
Critique of the state's plans to subsidize ethanol, mandate biodiesel, and mostly ignore end-use efficiency. (Feb. 2008).
Subsidies to Nuclear and Biofuels Among the Most Costly Carbon Abatement Strategies.
Provides subsidy cost per mt CO2eq abated via goverment supports to biofuels (including cellulosic) and nuclear energy. Integrating data from McKinsey & Co. on abatement options, demonstrates subsidies comprise the least efficient options for addressing climate change. Prepared for Greenpeace Solutions. (June 2008).
Strategies for Financing Brownfields Remediation and Redevelopment in California.
Reviewed options for the state of California to more effectively align incentives for brownfields redevelopment and to identify financial tools that would help achieve land reclamation.
Improving the Biennial Report: Issues and Options.
Prepared with Industrial Economics, Inc. for the US EPA's Office of Planning, Analysis, and Accountability and the Office of Solid Waste. April 2003.
Leveling the Playing Field for Recycling: A Policy Report on Virgin Material Subsidies from the National Recycling Coalition
Prepared with the National Policy Workgroup of the National Recycling Coalition. September 1999. Analysis identifies and quantifies a number of direct and indirect subsidies that put recycled materials at a disadvantage to virgin materials.