CEPR monitors budget and tax issues related to energy and the environment.

Reports

Reduced Work Hours as a Means of Slowing Climate Change

February 2013, David Rosnick

Public Investment, Industrial Policy and U.S. Economic Renewal
December 2009, Robert Pollin and Dean Baker

Bringing Home the Green Recovery: A User's Guide to the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
March 2009, Shawn Fremstad, Radhika Fox and Jason Walsh

Oil Drilling and Automobile Fuel Economy: The Relative Impact on Oil Prices
September 2008, Dean Baker and Matthew Sherman

Oil Drilling in Environmentally Sensitive Areas: The Role of the Media
September 2008, Mark Weisbrot and Nichole Szembrot

Op-Eds & Columns

Saving the Planet or 'Fixing' the Debt

Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 8, 2012

Romney’s Global Warming Joke Should Haunt Him

Dean Baker
Truthout, November 5, 2012

The D.C. Blackouts and Global Warming
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, July 9, 2012

Hot Air Over Gas Prices
Dean Baker and Bruce Bartlett
Politico, May 30, 2012

Do Environmentalists Have An Interest In Who Controls Oil Resources?
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, March 2, 2012
En Español

Events

How Federal Reserve Policies Add To Hard Times At The Pump

From Cochabamba to Cancun: Press Breakfast with Pablo Solon

Using Special Drawing Rights for Climate Finance

Press Releases

New Paper Projects Significant Carbon Emission Reductions with Fewer Work Hours

February 4, 2013

Analysis: Myth That Offshore Drilling Would Lower Gas Prices Gets Boost from Major Media
September 4, 2008

New Paper Suggests Bolivian Conflict Revolves Around Lopsided Control Over Land and Natural Gas
July 30, 2008    En español

New Report Raises Doubts About IMF Growth Projections
April 4, 2007

New Book Explains Right Turn in US Politics Since 1980
April 3, 2007

Testimony

Federal Reserve Board Policy and the Price of Oil
May 25, 2011, Testimony of Dean Baker before the Oversignt & Government Reform Committee

Other Resources

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