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Title: The Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act 1990 to 2010
Description: The second Report to Congress regarding the Clean Air Act. "The main goal of this report is to provide Congress and the public with comprehensive, up-to-date information on the Clean Air Act's social costs and benefits, including improvements in human health, welfare, and ecological resources."
Identifier (PID): yul:1121529

Title: Global Anthropogenic Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gas Emissions: 1990 - 2030
Description: EPA 430-R-12-006 This report provides information on historical and projected estimates of emissions of non-CO2 greenhouse gases from anthropogenic sources. It includes over 20 individual source categories from the energy, industrial processes, agriculture, and waste sectors. It covers 92 countries, historical information from 1990 to 2005 and business-as-usual projections from 2010 to 2030. This document is a revision of a draft document published to the EPA website in August 2011.
Identifier (PID): yul:1121537

Title: Office of Atmospheric Protection. Climate Protection Partnerships. Annual Report 2014
Description: Reports on the many initiatives under the Environmental Protection Agency, including Energy Star, Methane Emissions reduction programs, CO2 emissions reduction programs, etc. Provides economic and emission reduction statistics and other quantifiable measures of achievement.
Identifier (PID): yul:1121515

Title: Planning Framework for a Climate-resilient Economy
Description: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency worked with the Rhode Island Division of Planning to develop a framework to help communities assess their economic vulnerability to climate change and improve their economic resilience. A pilot community, North Kingstown, Rhode Island, tested and refined the framework. The framework can be adapted by communities anywhere in the country for their context and can be modified to cover small or large geographic areas and their economies.
Identifier (PID): yul:1121534

Title: Promoting Technology Innovation for Clean and Safe Water: Water Technology Innovation Blueprint—Version 2
Description: An overview of the concepts of safe water; frames the business case for water technology innovation; identifies “market opportunities” where technology innovation could help solve water challenges; provides examples of emerging innovation pioneers; identifies tools for assessing water risk; and frames a more robust set of actions that EPA will take to promote technologies for clean water.
Identifier (PID): yul:1121527

Title: Partnership for Sustainable Communities: Three Years of helping Communities achieve their visions for Growth and Prosperity
Description: Review of the activities of the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, involving EPA, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Department of Transportation. Includes case studies.
Identifier (PID): yul:1121514

Title: Survey of Existing State Policies and Programs that Reduce Power Sector CO2 Emissions
Description: Appendix for State Plan Considerations Technical Support Document (TSD) for the Clean Power Plan.
Identifier (PID): yul:1121521

Title: Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards for Light-Duty Vehicles: Manufacturer Performance Report for the Model year 2015
Description: This technical report supersedes previous reports and details manufacturers’ performance towards meeting GHG standards in the 2015 model year, the fourth year of the GHG standards which become increasingly stringent in each model year from 2012 through 2025. Shows that overall industry performance in model year 2015 was 7 g/mi better than required by the 2015 GHG emissions standard. This marks the fourth consecutive model year of industry outperforming the standards by a sizeablemargin .
Identifier (PID): yul:1121523

Title: Fuel and Carbon Dioxide Emissions Savings Calculation Methodology for Combined Heat and Power Systems
Description: This paper provides the EPA Combined Heat and Power Partnership’s recommended methodology for calculating fuel and CO2 emissions savings from CHP compared to single heat and power. This methodology recognizes the multiple outputs of CHP systems and compares the fuel use and emissions of the CHP system to the fuel use and emissions that would have normally occurred in providing energy services through SHP.
Identifier (PID): yul:1121516

Title: Combined Heat and Power: A Guide to Developing and Implementing Greenhouse Gas Reduction Programs
Description: This guide is directed to municipal staff, planners, and politicians. This guide describes CHP, also known as cogeneration, which refers to the simultaneous production of electricity and thermal energy from a single fuel source. This guide includes an overview of the benefits of CHP systems, costs, sources of funding, and case studies.
Identifier (PID): yul:1121512

Title: 2011-2014 GHGRP Industrial Profiles: Petroleum and Natural Gas
Description: This report provides statistics for GHG emissions of petroleum and natural gas production, processing, transmission and distribution in 2014. These activities accounted 236 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). This is an increase of 3.5% compared to 2013 GHG emissions from this sector.
Identifier (PID): yul:1121510

Title: Partnership for Sustainable Communities: Supporting Environmental Justice and Equitable Development
Description: A 4-page Fact sheet which briefly describes the history and some examples of the partnership of the EPA, Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the Department of Transportation.
Identifier (PID): yul:1121511

Title: GHGRP 2013 Overview of Reported Data
Description: The Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, mandated by Congress, is unique in reporting facility-level data from industrial sources across the United States. It reports annually, but does NOT represent all GHG emissions from the U.S. economy.
Identifier (PID): yul:1121505

Title: Emerging Financial and Regulatory Incentives for CMM Emission Reduction Project Development
Description: This 2-page fact sheet describes programs to reduce or use Coal mine methane, with case study examples.
Identifier (PID): yul:1121509

Title: GHGRP 2012 Overview of Reported Data
Description: This overview section summarizes national industrial sector emissions and trends for 2012. Data is collected from direct emitters and represents about half of all U.S. emissions. This overview describes how the GHGRP data relates to the Inventory of U.S. GHG Emissions and Sinks.
Identifier (PID): yul:1121508

Title: Clean Power Plan Factsheet: Overview of the Clean Power Plan
Description: This brief Fact Sheet describes the essential points about the legislation, touching on the legislative history, justification, role of States, community benefits and environmental justice.
Identifier (PID): yul:1121507

Title: EJ 2020 Action Agenda: The U.S. EPA's Environmental Justice Strategic Action Plan for 2016 - 2020
Description: Sets out the goals and timelines to integrate environmental justice principles in EPA programs, and summarizes EJ achievements to date. The 2016 - 2020 focus areas will be Lead Disparities, (2) Drinking Water, (3) Air Quality, and (4) Hazardous Waste Sites.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120713

Title: Final Determination on the Appropriateness of the Model Year 2022-2025 Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards
Description: In this mandated final review of the standards, the EPA determined to leave the standards in place, stating that they “are projected to reduce oil consumption by 50 billion gallons and to save U.S. consumers nearly $92 billion in fuel cost over the lifetime of MY2022-2025 vehicles”, with minimal employment impacts. President Trump re-opened that decision in March 2017.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120709

Title: EPA’s Clean Power Plan, Climate Change and Labor
Description: A brief Fact Sheet about the implications of climate change on workers and productivity, as well as the job prospects which will be created by the shift to a clean energy economy. Also discusses the issue of public health and air pollution.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120708

Title: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in Low-Income Communities: A Guide to EPA Programs
Description: This guide is designed to help state and local governments connect with EPA programs that can help them expand or develop their own energy efficiency/renewable energy (EE/RE) and climate initiatives in ways that benefit low-income communities.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120698

Title: The Clean Power Plan: Key Changes and Improvements from Proposal to Final
Description: A Fact Sheet summarizing the history and reasoning of the Clean Power Plan.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120680

Title: Assessing the Multiple Benefits of Clean Energy: A Resource for States
Description: From the introductory comments: "This groundbreaking document is the first to organize and present a comprehensive review of the multiple benefits of clean energy, together with an analytical framework that states can use to assess those benefits during the development and implementation of clean energy policies and programs."
Identifier (PID): yul:1120658

Title: White paper: Empirical evidence regarding the effects of the Clean Air Act on jobs and economic growth
Description: An analysis of the economic and health benefits likely to accrue from the Clean Air Act in the U.S. Based on a review of the economic literature, it projects job growth. Submitted to Representatives Henry Waxman and Bobby Rush, ranking members of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120601

Title: Economic Impacts of S. 1733: The Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act of 2009
Description: The economic analysis doesn't include estimates of impacts on the labour market.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120579

Title: EPA Policy on Environmental Justice for Working with Federally Recognized Tribes and Indigenous Peoples
Description: From Gina McCarthy's preface: "This Policy is composed of 17 principles which, when implemented individually and together can help improve the administration of EPA’s programs, support the fair and effective implementation of federal environmental laws, and provide protection from disproportionate impacts and significant risks to human health and the environment."
Identifier (PID): yul:1120562

Title: Potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the construction sector
Description: Highlights difficulties in measuring GHG emissions within and across sectors. Section 3 presents information on GHG inventory protocols that are publicly available and frequently used, and examines the attributes of a protocol that would be useful for companies in the construction sector.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120556

Title: Healthy Indoor Environment Protocols for Home Energy Upgrades
Description: The protocols apply to existing single-family and multi-family low-rise residential buildings. They provide guidance for conducting home assessments and undertaking the responses necessary to maintain or improve indoor air quality and safety. The protocols also can help improve the quality of home weatherization projects and other energy-efficiency retrofit or remodeling jobs, thus reducing failures and call-backs. The protocols are intended for use by the home energy retrofit industry, including energy-efficiency retrofit and housing rehabilitation professionals and contractors, and others engaged in energy-focused residential retrofit, renovation or remodeling efforts. They are also intended for voluntary adoption by federal, state, tribal and local weatherization assistance programs, federally funded housing programs, industry standards organizations, etc. Include discussions of worker safety and health as well as occupant safety and health.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120587

Title: Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990 -2014
Identifier (PID): yul:1121532