Would establish the federal Clean Energy Standard and a CES credit trading market, incentivize development and deployment of zero-emission technologies, including long term storage, and reduce GHGs nearly 80% by 2035.
An analysis of recent efforts to use the SCC as a direct value for taxes and subsidies applied to economic activity with a negative or positive carbon impact.
Resources for the Future coordinate economists and scientists to improve the science behind estimates of the SCC. They have published a range of briefs, reports, and testimony on improving utilization of the SCC.
A 2015 report, Expert Consensus on the Economics of Climate Change; A 2014 report, Omitted Damages; and 2019 report, A Lower Bound.
Compiles a suite of resources and literature on the evolving effort to properly value the cost of carbon pollution, and highlights efforts and opportunities at the state and federal level to incorporate those costs into policy.
A 2016 Assessment of Approach to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon, and a 2017 follow-up, Valuing Climate Damages: Updating Estimation of the Social Cost of Carbon Dioxide.
Calls for a cost-sharing grant program to help advanced reactors pay for the lengthy licensing process.
Calls on the NRC to make its review process “technology inclusive” by 2028.
World Nuclear Association also convenes a working group to promote a worldwide nuclear regulatory environment where internationally accepted standardized reactor designs can be widely deployed.
Congressional appropriations for fiscal year 2019 approved $1.33 billion in funding for DOE’s nuclear energy research, development and deployment programs.