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The issue brief provides an overview of how businesses and water utilities in the United States and Latin America are pursuing upstream forest conservation as a cost-effective means of ensuring clean water supplies. It also suggests how many of these approaches could be applicable in the southern United States.

In the Southern United States, the watersheds with the greatest ability to produce clean water and with the most consumers tend to be the forested watersheds of the east (top).

The Office of Inspector General released a report today clearing scientists at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of wrongdoing with regard to the stolen emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) in November 2009.

“Reefs at Risk Revisited” report presents comprehensive analysis of threats to coral reefs

More than 75 percent of the coral reefs in the Atlantic region are at risk from local threats (i.e., coastal development, overfishing/destructive fishing, marine-based pollution, and/or watershed-base

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The World Resources Institute (WRI) announced today that Dr. Kevin Kennedy will lead its U.S. Climate Initiative, within the Climate and Energy Program, starting in April 2011.

This working paper explores how states and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and industrial facilities using the standards of performance under section 111 of the Clean Air Act.

S&P, WRI Release Report on Climate Policy Scenarios and the US Chemicals Industry

Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Administrator, NOAA, and leading experts discuss “Reefs at Risk Revisited” report findings and solutions.

WRI and Standard & Poor’s were unable to conduct a full assessment of credit quality per subsector under EPA regulation because of limited information on the EPA’s anticipated regulatory approach

GHG emissions compliance costs should be minimal for 10 of the 13 subsectors eligible for free emissions allowances in 2016, in WRI’s view.

The impact of energy-related costs varies under the three EIA scenarios.

Using the EIA policy scenarios and projections of the American Power Act (APA), WRI analyzed the potential additional costs or savings as a result of climate policy.

Forests for Water: Exploring Payments for Watershed Services in the U.S. South

Watersheds of the Southern United States

PRESS STATEMENT: WRI Responds to Inspector General's Report on NOAA Scientists

PRESS RELEASE: 75% of World’s Coral Reefs Currently Under Threat, New Analysis Finds

Reefs at Risk in the Atlantic/Caribbean

Regional Cap and Trade Programs

PRESS RELEASE: World Resources Institute Names Kevin Kennedy to Lead U.S. Climate Program

What’s Ahead for Power Plants & Industry? Using the Clean Air Act to Reduce GHGs, Building on Regional Programs

PRESS RELEASE: Study Finds Federal Climate Policy Scenarios Would Have Modest Credit Impacts for Most U.S. Chemicals Subsectors

MEDIA ADVISORY: "Reefs at Risk Revisited" Launch at National Press Club, Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Summary of Select EPA Regulatory Exposure Factors by Chemical Manufacturing Subsector Based on CO2 Emissions

Estimated Maximum Compliance Costs under Cap-and-Trade Policy (assuming rebates are provided to eligible subsectors) in 2006

Energy Intensity, Trade Intensity, and Size of U.S. Chemical Manufacturing Subsectors (2006)

Direct Energy Purchase Costs as % of Shipment Value under Three EIA Projection Scenarios of the American Power Act (2016)

Summary of Relative Subsector-Level Vulnerability under the American Power Act

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