Toward a New National Energy Policy: Assessing Options that can Succeed

FOR RELEASE: June 23, 2010 CONTACT: RFF Office of Communications, 202-328-5026                   NEPI (Mary Haddican), 918-706-1716 "WASHINGTON – Resources for the Future and the National Energy Policy Institute (NEPI) today release a comprehensive economic analysis of more than 35 available policy options for reducing U.S. oil consumption and curbing carbon dioxide emissions through 2030.

Combining a standardized modeling approach and the judgments of top academic experts from around the country,Toward a New National Energy Policy: Assessing the Options provides a rigorous “apples-to apples” comparison of how different polices rank in terms of such quantitative measures as costs and ability to reduce CO₂ emissions and barrels of oil consumed...."