Action Team Support Documents

The following is an inventory of the materials provided by staff as key background reference documents for Action Team members:

1. Letter from Secretary Michael W. Sole [PDF - 61 KB]
2. Action Team Charge from Executive Order 07-128 [PDF - 126 KB]
3. Background Briefing – Climate Science [PDF - 396 KB]
4. Background Briefing – Energy Infrastructure [PDF - 733 KB]
5. Background Briefing – Organization [PDF - 256 KB]
6. Policy Actions to Date [PDF - 155 KB]
7. Action Team Staff Analysis [PDF - 316 KB]: September 18, 2007 Meeting
8. Consensus Concepts - Stationary Sources [PDF - 162 KB]
9. DRAFT Phase 1 Report [PDF - 996KB]
10. DRAFT Summary of Findings and Recommendations [PDF - 150 KB]
11. Phase One of the Action Team Report [PDF - 1.2 MB]
12. 2008 Session Summary [PDF - 289 KB]

External Support Documents

In addition, the following background information was requested by Action Team members.

• Pew Center on Global Climate Change   – Climate Change 101
• Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Cap & Trade 101 –

• Fundamentals  – provides a brief overview of key market design elements.
• Program Guide  – provides a great deal more detail on cap & trade policy design

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Acid Rain Program –

• Program Basics  provides a thumbnail sketch of program design
• Program Results,  outlines the environmental and economic benefits associated with the program

Useful Materials Submitted by Action Team Members

• Wang Sugar Cane Ethanol White Paper [PDF - 186 KB]
• European Biofuels Technology Report [PDF - 557 KB]
• Concerned Scientists Renewable Energy Info Sheet [PDF - 347 KB]
• Concerned Scientists Info Sheet on Renewable Electricity [PDF - 347 KB]
• Environmental Defense Incentives for Hybrid Trucks [PDF - 86 KB]
• Wall Street Journal Ethanol Editorial [PDF - 57 KB]
• Washington Post Climate Change News Story [PDF - 70 KB]
• Carbon Point Climate Change News Story [PDF - 54 KB]
• Christian Science Monitor News Story on Utilities [PDF - 12 KB]
• Earth Observatory Press Release [PDF - 54 KB]
• White House Press Release [PDF - 99 KB]
• Letter to DOT from Audubon Society [PDF - 51 KB]
• DOT Letter to Audubon Society [PDF - 72 KB]