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by and - This issue brief is a compilation of several green tariff proposals and offerings for commercial and industrial customers in regulated markets in the United States.
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by Priya Barua - June 2017This working paper is designed to equip utilities to create desirable renewable energy products by outlining the needs of large-scale energy buyers, sharing the common practices of successful green tariffs to date, and highlighting key regulatory considerations.
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The U.S. Green Tariff Deals graph explores the renewable contracts signed by large-scale energy buyers and monopoly utilities via green tariffs.
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by Spencer Knowles - March 14, 2017The Chesapeake Bay is one of America's most treasured waterways, but also one of the most polluted. Experts in this WRI Podcast examine nutrient trading as a potential solution.
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by Cy Jones, Beth McGee, Lee Epstein, Erik Fisher and Peggy Sanner - March 2017Efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay will benefit from nutrient trading to help meet stormwater requirements, which can be the most challenging to achieve. WRI and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation studied three counties—two in Maryland and one in Virginia—to explore the potential for nutrient trading with the stormwater sector.
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by Sara Walker and Mindy Selman - March 2014Across the United States, water quality trading is being explored as a mechanism for reducing the costs of cleaning up impaired waterbodies.
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Advancing voluntary and market-based solutions for improving water quality in a manner that maximizes economic efficiency and maintains environmental integrity.
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by Evan Branosky, Cy Jones and Mindy Selman - May 2011Over the last ten years, four Chesapeake Bay states—Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia—introduced nutrient trading programs to provide wastewater treatment plants with flexible options for meeting and maintaining
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by John Talberth, Cy Jones, Michelle Perez, Mindy Selman and Evan Branosky - August 2010Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States, is a vital economic, cultural, and ecological resource for both the region and the nation. But the water quality and the overall ecology of the bay have been harmed by excess runoff and discharges of nutrients, particularly nitrogen and
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by John Talberth, Cy Jones, Michelle Perez, Mindy Selman and Evan Branosky - June 2010The largest estuary in the United States, the Chesapeake Bay is a vital economic, cultural, and ecological resource for the region and the nation. Excess runoff and discharges of nutrients—particularly nitrogen and phosphorus—from farms, pavement, wastewater treatment plants
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by Evan Branosky - May 14, 2010The federal commitment to develop and support environmental markets could have national significance.
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by John Talberth, Cy Jones, Michelle Perez, Mindy Selman and Evan Branosky - April 2010The largest estuary in the United States, the Chesapeake Bay is a vital economic, cultural, and ecological resource for the region and the nation. Excess runoff and discharges of nutrients—particularly nitrogen and phosphorus—from farms, pavement, wastewater treatment plants
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by Cy Jones, Evan Branosky, Mindy Selman and Michelle Perez - February 2010The largest estuary in the United States, the Chesapeake Bay is a vital economic, cultural, and ecological resource for the region and the nation. Excess runoff and discharges of nutrients—particularly nitrogen and phosphorus—from farms, pavement, wastewater treatment plants
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by Cy Jones - December 14, 2009A new Fact Sheet on nutrient trading in the Chesapeake Bay region covers issues such as potential costs and revenues, and how farmers and other stakeholders can benefit.
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by Mindy Selman and Suzie Greenhalgh - September 2009Nutrient overenrichment of freshwater and coastal ecosystems—or eutrophication—is a rapidly growing environmental crisis. Worldwide, the number of coastal areas impacted by eutrophication stands at over 500.
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by Cy Jones - May 15, 2009Presidential intervention has raised the stakes in a decades-long effort to clean up Chesapeake Bay.
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by Mindy Selman, Evan Branosky and Cy Jones - March 2009Water quality trading is gaining traction in a number of watersheds around the world. It is a market-based approach that works alongside water quality regulation to improve water quality, providing
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by Mindy Selman, Jenny Guiling, Jonathan St. John and Suzie Greenhalgh - January 2007Can reverse auctions be used to achieve cost-effective improvements in environmental quality?
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by Mindy Selman, Suzie Greenhalgh and Michael Taylor - July 2006This Policy Note outlines economic and "fairness" reasons why supporting the sale of the cost-share portion of agricultural nutrient and sediment reductions is not the most appropriate policy for the USDA and other government agencies to adopt.