Each week, I review the papers, studies, reports, and briefings posted over at the RFF Library Blog.
Clean Power Plan — Final Rule in Federal Register and Two Explainers
[Brad Plumer at Vox] Obama’s climate agenda involves a whole slew of rules and regulations.
Broadly speaking, President Obama’s climate-change plan boils down to a simple set of numbers. The United States is currently taking part in international talks to address global warming. And as part of those talks, the Obama administration has vowed that US greenhouse-gas emissions will decline 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025 - via Environmental Protection Agency
Obama’s Carbon Mandate: An Account of Collusion, Cutting Corners, and Costing Americans Billions
[From an article in E&E News PM by Jean Chemnick, sub. req’d] Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Republicans released a report today that they said provides evidence of U.S. EPA’s “collusion” with environmental litigants over several years on the development of what eventually became the Clean Power Plan. - via US Senate, Committee on Environment and Public Works Majority Staff Report
European Union Emission Inventory Report 1990–2013 Under the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution
This document is the annual European Union (EU) emission inventory report to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). The report and its accompanying data constitute the official submission by the European Commission (EC) on behalf of the EU as a Party to the Executive Secretary of UNECE. The report is compiled by the European Environment Agency (EEA) in cooperation with the EU Member States. - via European Environment Agency
Impacts of Global Warming on Residential Heating and Cooling Degree-days in the United States
Climate change is expected to decrease heating demand and increase cooling demand for buildings and affect outdoor thermal comfort. Here, we project changes in residential heating degree-days (HDD) and cooling degree-days (CDD) for the historical (1981–2010) and future (2080–2099) periods in the United States using median results from the Climate Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) simulations under the Representation Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) scenario. We project future HDD and CDD values by adding CMIP5 projected changes to values based on historical observations of US climate. The sum HDD + CDD is an indicator of locations that are thermally comfortable, with low heating and cooling demand. - via Scientific Reports (2015, 5, Article number: 12427; doi:10.1038/srep12427) / by Yana Petri & Ken Caldeira
Businesses and Investors Across US Support EPA Clean Power Plan [Interactive Graphic]
In an unprecedented show of business support for tackling climate change, 365 companies and investors sent letters to more than two-dozen governors across the United States voicing support for the EPA Clean Power Plan for existing power plants and encouraging the states’ “timely finalization” of state implementation plans to meet the new standards… - via Ceres
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