scholarly journals Nation’s Business and the environment: the U.S. Chamber’s changing relationships with DDT, “ecologists,” regulations, and renewable energy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam D. Orford
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Reagan Administration ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Full Text Review ◽  
Business Week ◽  
Business And The Environment ◽  
The U.S

AbstractNation’s Business was a monthly business magazine published by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, with a subscription list larger than Business Week, Forbes, or Fortune. This study explores how the magazine responded and adapted to the rise of environmentalism, and environmental regulation of business, by exploring its treatment of four topics: DDT, environmentalists, government regulation, and renewable energy. It is built on a full-text review of all issues of Nation’s Business published between 1945 and 1981. It reveals the development of a variety of anti-environmental logics and discourses, including the delegitimization of environmentalism as emotional and irrational, the undermining of scientific conclusions as uncertain, the monetization of decision-making using cost-benefit analysis, and the problematization of government overregulation. The study thus traces the origins of the anti-environmental policies of the Reagan Administration to the business community of the preceding decade.

Mercury and Air Toxics Standards: Co-Benefits and the Courts in U.S. Cost-Benefit Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Arik Levinson
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Recent Change ◽  
Mercury Pollution ◽  
Regulatory Impact Analysis ◽  
Regulatory Impact ◽  
The U.S

In April 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington DC agreed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to delay indefinitely a lawsuit over the Agency’s regulation governing mercury pollution from power plants. Lawyers for the EPA argued that they needed time to evaluate the status of the lawsuit, due to “the recent change in Administration.” The case, Murray v. EPA, centers on the Agency’s analysis of the benefits of reducing mercury pollution. Key to that litigation is the EPA’s treatment of co-benefits—the incidental reductions to pollutants aside from mercury. As of this writing, the Agency has still not decided how to proceed. This case summarizes the EPA’s 2011 Regulatory Impact Analysis at the heart of the legal dispute.1

scholarly journals The Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Electricity Production from Small Scale Renewable Energy Sources in the Conditions of Romania

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 385-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Atănăsoae ◽  
Radu Dumitru Pentiuc ◽  
Dan Laurențiu Milici ◽  
Elena Daniela Olariu ◽  
Mihaela Poienar
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Electricity Production ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
The Cost

scholarly journals A SOLUTIONS APPRAISAL TOOL TO ADDRESS THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF TIDAL LAGOONS

2018 ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Kathryn Mackinnon ◽  
Helen C.M Smith ◽  
Francesca Moore ◽  
Harry Van Der Weijde ◽  
Iraklis Lazakis
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Tidal Range ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Swansea Bay ◽  
The Uk ◽  
High Level

The deployment of renewable energy is regarded as a strategy to combat climate change. There have been a number of global agreements aiming to mitigate climate change, the most recent of which was the 2015 Paris Agreement. Often overlooked is the vast amount of marine renewable energy available around the world’s coastlines. In particular tidal range energy is a largely untapped resource which has benefits including reduced uncertainty through use of proven technology, a high level of predictability, the ability to phase shift energy to provide base load supply and a long expected life span (100 years). The key barriers to development of tidal range energy have been environmental concerns and high capital cost. Tidal lagoons are often presented as environmentally friendly alternatives to tidal barrages, but this does not mean their environmental impacts can be overlooked. Recent developments in the UK lagoon industry such as the awarding of a Development Consent Order to Swansea Bay tidal lagoon, mean it is now more important than ever to consider the environmental impacts of tidal lagoons and what solutions are available to address them. This is challenging considering there are no operational tidal lagoons in the world yet. This study aims to: 1. Identify the key impacts through industry engagement 2. Find available solutions through systematic review 3. Select and analyze solutions using Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) and Ecosystem Service Valuation (ESV).

Korišćenje alata za tržišno modelovanje pri analizi benefita po elektroenergetski sistem izgradnjom novog interkonektivnog dalekovoda

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 131-136
Author(s):  
Srđan Bošković
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Power Systems ◽  
Transmission Lines ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Green Energy ◽  
Total Consumption ◽  
Cross Border

The goal of this paper is to introduce the market modeling tool Antares and to point out possibilities of its utilisation in cost-benefit analysis of energy projects. Market modeling of power systems represents a detailed modeling of generating units, consumption and cross-border connections with neighboring systems in order to find economically optimal dispatching of power plants by which the total consumption will be satisfied. In this paper, two power systems connected by cross-border transmission lines will be modeled (in one of them there is a large amount of installed capacity of renewable energy sources). The benefits of reinforcing cross-border connection embodied in avoiding curtailment of available renewable energy due to low energy consumption and lack of energy storage systems will be analyzed, along with corresponding benefits of reduced CO2 emissions due to the ability to transfer green energy into neighboring power systems through increased cross-border capacity.

Privacy Factors for Successful Ubiquitous Computing

2011 ◽  
pp. 143-160
Author(s):  
Linda Little ◽  
Pam Briggs
Keyword(s):  
Ubiquitous Computing ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Computing Machinery ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

Certain privacy principles have been established by industry, e.g. the U.S. Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery (USACM). Over the past two years, we have been trying to understand whether such principles reflect the concerns of the ordinary citizen. We have developed a method of enquiry which displays a rich context to the user in order to elicit more detailed information about those privacy factors that underpin our acceptance of ubiquitous computing. To investigate use and acceptance, Videotaped Activity Scenarios specifically related to the exchange of health, financial, shopping and e-voting information and a large scale survey were used. We present a detailed analysis of user concerns, firstly in terms of a modified Hertzberg model that identifies a set of constructs that might reflect user-generated privacy principles, secondly those factors likely to play a key role in an individuals cost-benefit analysis, and thirdly, longer-term concerns of the citizen in terms of the impact of new technologies on social engagement and human values.

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