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Student Working Papers

Blown Away: The Increasing Importance of Wind Energy in Michigan

April 1, 2017
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Sean Smalley
The future of the environment is a controversial topic in 21st century America. Two polarities exist on the subject of the environment. Typically conservatives reject climate change and doubt any human causation, claiming it to be a mythical...
Student Working Papers

Renewable Energy Reform in Michigan

April 1, 2017
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Tanner Savitsky
As the industrial revolution and capitalism firmly took hold several hundred years ago, the production of excess carbon dioxide and other fossil fuels has negatively influenced the environment. Many fossil fuels, like coal, were cheap, effective,...
IEEP

Moving the needle on American support for a carbon tax

March 1, 2017
Key findings from the latest round of the National Survey on Energy and Environment (NSEE) from the University of Michigan and Muhlenberg College suggest Americans are increasingly warming to the idea of a carbon tax, especially if they are told the...
IEEP

Fewer Americans Doubt Global Warming is Occurring

August 1, 2016
Since its inception in 2008, the National Surveys on Energy and Environment (NSEE) has tracked whether Americans believe there is solid evidence that global warming is occurring. The Spring 2016 NSEE finds that Americans’ views on climate change—and...
IEEP

American Views on Fracking

May 1, 2016
Since becoming an economically viable means of extracting oil and gas in the early 21st century, hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking” as the process is commonly known) has become a major component of the American and world energy sectors. In 2015,...
Student Working Papers

The Status of New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme

June 1, 2015
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Kerri Metz, CLOSUP Policy Analyst, Nina Tannenbaum, CLOSUP Policy Analyst
The aspects of New Zealand’s program under the Kyoto Protocol, as well as several others, will be analyzed to determine their success in reducing New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions since the nation’s commitment and subsequent creation of the ETS...
IEEP

Cap-and-Trade Support Linked to Revenue Use

June 1, 2015
The Obama Administration’s creation of the Clean Power Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power sector has renewed interest in possible state or regional adoption of cap-and-trade programs to meet mandatory reduction targets....
Working Papers

The Durability of Carbon Cap‐and‐Trade Policy

April 1, 2015
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Barry Rabe
The surge of American states’ adoption of policies to mitigate climate change in the late 1990s and 2000s appeared to constitute a first wave of expanding use of market-based policy tools such as carbon cap-and-trade in the absence of binding...
Working Papers

A Survey of Environmental Policies Among the States: 2015

March 1, 2015
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Heather Kirkpatrick
The purpose of this study is to begin to develop a comprehensive assessment of the relative activity of the US states in developing environmental policies. We did this by developing eleven policy categories varying across different environmental and...

Farming the Wind: The Impact of Wind Energy on Farming

January 1, 2015
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Sarah Mills
In February 2014, owners of farmland in 14 townships in Michigan were sent a mail survey about their opinions of wind energy, recent investments in their homes and farms, and their future plans for their land. A total of 1,210 landowners—72% of all...
IEEP

Shale Governance in the European Union: Principles and Practice

October 1, 2014
The extraction of shale gas—mainly through the process of hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”—has become a central if contentious area of energy policy in the European Union (EU). Like their US counterparts, European policymakers are attracted by the...