Resources

Search our resource database to find legal tools by selecting a relevant emissions reduction pathway, jurisdiction, location, keyword, or all of the above.

2119 Resources Found, Displaying 1301 thru 1310

ACEEE report, After the Audit

Pathway: Building Energy Audits

Jurisdiction: Private Entities

Surveyed over 600 customers who received home energy assessments to see how they responded. Suggests a number of strategies that assessors can use to increase the chances that customers will follow through on their recommendations.

Report, Task Force on Biofuels Infrastructure

Pathway: Creating Pipeline Capacity for Biofuels

Jurisdiction: Private Entities

Surveyed current biofuels transportation infrastructure and proposed a phased approach to biofuels infrastructure expansion.

Report, Biofuels Infrastructure in the United States

Pathway: Creating Pipeline Capacity for Biofuels

Jurisdiction: Private Entities

Surveys existing ethanol refineries, the rail lines that deliver their product to market, and infrastructure challenges facing expanded biofuel production, including the prognosis for dedicated pipelines.

DOE report on ethanol pipelines

Pathway: Creating Pipeline Capacity for Biofuels

Jurisdiction: Individual Agencies

Considered dedicated pipelines for ethanol under a series of feasibility factors, including the quantity of ethanol production that would make dedicated pipelines economically viable; existing or potential barriers to the construction; and more.

Proposed Biofuels Market Expansion Act

Pathway: Creating Pipeline Capacity for Biofuels

Jurisdiction: Congress

Would have made renewable fuel pipelines eligible for loan guarantees for projects that reduce GHGs and employ new or significantly improved technologies.

Proposed Biofuels Pipeline Act of 2008

Pathway: Creating Pipeline Capacity for Biofuels

Jurisdiction: Congress

Would have changed the tax code to provide the same incentives for ethanol pipeline builders that oil pipeline builders receive.

EO 13624

Pathway: Using CHP at Biofuel Production Facilities

Jurisdiction: Executive Branch, Individual Agencies

Tasked various agencies with developing policies to encourage investment in industrial efficiency, including the expansion of industrial CHP technologies at food processing, pulp and paper, chemicals, metals, and oil refining operations.

CHP Policies and Incentives Database

Pathway: Using CHP at Biofuel Production Facilities

Jurisdiction: Individual Agencies, States and State Governments

The CHP Policies and Incentives Database is an online database that allows users to search for CHP policies and incentives by state or at the federal level.

Report, Portfolio Standards and the Promotion of Combined Heat and Power

Pathway: Using CHP at Biofuel Production Facilities

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments

Catalogs states with RPS, CES, APS, and EERS requirements or eligibility for CHP, and makes recommendations for how to incorporate CHP into state portfolios generally.

DOE Bioenergy Research and Development Portfolio

Pathway: Biofuel Research and Development

Jurisdiction: Individual Agencies

DOE has funded several bioenergy R&D projects, including a 2018 announcement of 36 projects totaling $80 million of support to develop drop-in renewable hydrocarbon fuels, bio-based products, and power from non-food biomass and waste feedstocks.