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Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment 2009 Report

Description: This report discusses the current and future Arctic marine activity. The results of this comprehensive assessment are a range of key findings linked to the main topics identifiers.
Date: 2009
Creator: Arctic Council. Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment Working Group.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Best Practice Approaches for Characterizing, Communicating, and Incorporating Scientific Uncertainty in Climate Decision Making

Description: This report provides a tutorial for the climate analysis and decision-making communities on current best practice in describing and analyzing uncertainty in climate-related problems.
Date: January 2009
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Compendium of Avian Occurrence Information for the Continental Shelf Waters along the Atlantic Coast of the United States: Final Report (Database Section-Seabirds)

Description: This study follows the regulatory requirements by the MMS and FWS in assessing the construction of building and wind turbines effects on marine bird populations.
Date: July 2009
Creator: O'Connell, Allan; Gardner, Beth; Gilbert, Andrew & Laurent, Kevin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Economic Effects of Legislation to Reduce Greenhouse-Gas Emissions

Description: Report discussing global climate change that poses one of the nation's most significant long-term policy challenges. The report makes four key points: Climate change is an international problem, the economic impact of a policy to ameliorate that risk would depend importantly on the design of the policy., reducing the risk of climate change would come at some cost to the economy, and climate legislation would cause permanent shifts in production and employment away from industries focused on th… more
Date: September 2009
Creator: United States. Congressional Budget Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy Efficiency Program Administrators and Building Energy Codes

Description: This brief documents how energy efficiency program administrators have used technical, institutional, financial, and other resources to help advance building energy codes at the federal, state, and local levels, and describes the issues involved in fostering an expanded administrator role for the future. This brief is provided as part of a comprehensive suite of tools and resources to assist organizations in meeting the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency goal to achieve all cost-effecti… more
Date: September 2009
Creator: National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency (U.S.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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EPA Analysis of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 H.R. 2454 in the 111th Congress

Description: A presentation that analysis the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 as well as the economic wide cap and trade program, the energy efficiency provisions, and the competitiveness provisions.
Date: June 23, 2009
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Atmospheric Programs.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

EPA Preliminary Analysis of the Waxman-Markey Discussion Draft

Description: This presentation is the estimates provided by the EPA to the House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Waxman and Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Markey's requests on economic impacts of the comprehensive climate legislation being developed by the committee.
Date: April 20, 2009
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Atmospheric Programs.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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