Article for the Interpress News Service. (June 2007).
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).
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).
Critique of the state's plans to subsidize ethanol, mandate biodiesel, and mostly ignore end-use efficiency. (Feb. 2008).
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).
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.
Prepared with Industrial Economics, Inc. for the US EPA's Office of Planning, Analysis, and Accountability and the Office of Solid Waste. April 2003.