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Title: Federal Efforts to Reduce the Cost of Capturing and Storing Carbon Dioxide
Description: Describes the current government efforts at demonstration projects and research into carbon capture and storage, including costs of generating coal-fired electricity with CCS technology. The report considers alternate policy scenarios for investment in CCS technology, including increased funding by the Department of Energy, or increased reliance on private sector funding.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120642

Title: The Economic and Budgetary Effects of Producing Oil and Natural Gas From Shale
Description: Explains why the economic effects of shale gas will be greater in the short term than the long term. Considers how development of shale gas will affect the U.S. budget, the global energy market, and the environment.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120640

Title: Border Adjustments for Economywide Policies That Impose a Price on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Description: Examines the unintended consequences of economy-wide programs such as carbon pricing. Also examines border adjustments, "which could reduce the loss of competitiveness and make the costs of U.S. producers more similar to those of producers in countries that do not impose comparable policies, but such adjustments could be difficult to implement and to defend if challenged as being inconsistent with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), one of the component agreements of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Transition assistance could also offset the loss of competitiveness."
Identifier (PID): yul:1120639

Title: The Renewable Fuel Standard: Issues for 2014 and beyond
Description: Estimates the impacts of the RFS on the price of fuel, the price of food, and emissions.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120637

Title: Federal Support for the Development, Production, and Use of Fuels and Energy Technologies
Description: This report tracks historical and current policies re taxes on energy, renewable energy, energy efficiency. Also tracks expenditures by the Department of Energy to stimulate research on renewable energy.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120617

Title: Effects of Federal Tax Credits for the Purchase of Electric Vehicles
Description: This report reviews past experience with incentive programs to promote vehicle efficiency and considers the effectiveness of tax credits to promote increased sales, environmental benefits, and economic benefits.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120616