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Please see EPA's Climate Change site for current information on climate change and global warming. EPA no longer updates EPA's Global Warming Site, but is maintaining this archive for historical purposes. Thank you for visiting the archive of EPA's Global Warming Site.
Technologies and Policy Options
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States across the nation have been actively evaluating policies and technologies that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These policies and technologies span a broad range of GHG sectors. They also cover a spectrum of commitment, ranging from recommendation to research to full-scale policy and technology implementation. A few have been designed specifically to reduce GHG emissions; the vast majority, however, aim at energy efficiency or pollution control as their primary targets and produce GHG emission reductions as a "co-benefit."
EPA is presently updating the database on states actions affecting GHG emissions to enable state decision-makers to obtain information on the types of policies that are under consideration by their colleagues. For questions on policies recommended in state action plans, please contact Denise Mulholland (mulholland.denise@epa.gov).
EPA has also compiled a series of short papers in PDF format (about PDF), which describe various technology and policy options to reduce GHG emissions:
- Climate Change Technologies - Solar Energy (PDF, 2 pp., 40 KB)
- Climate Change Technologies - Landfill Methane Recovery (PDF, 2 pp., 45 KB)
- Climate Change Technologies - Light-Emitting Diodes (PDF, 2 pp., 54 KB)
- Climate Change Technologies - Alternative Fueled Vehicles (PDF, 2 pp., 62 KB)
- Climate Change Technologies - Fuel Cells (PDF, 2 pp., 43 KB)
- Climate Change Policies - Renewables Portfolio Standards (PDF, 2 pp., 79 KB)
- Climate Change Policies - State Wide Recycling (PDF, 2 pp., 46 KB)
- Climate Change Technologies - Wind Energy (PDF, 2 pp., 44 KB)
- Climate Change Technologies - Manure Management (PDF, 2 pp., 37 KB)
- Climate Change Technologies - Fertilizer Management (PDF, 2 pp., 69 KB)
- Climate Change Policies - Net Metering (PDF, 2 pp., 37 KB)
- Climate Change Policies - Energy and the Home (PDF, 2 pp., 42 KB)
- Climate Change Policies - Green Power (PDF, 2 pp., 46 KB)
- Climate Change Policies - Public Benefit Funds (PDF, 2 pp., 58 KB)
- Climate Change Technologies - Combined Heat and Power (PDF, 2 pp., 45 KB)
- Climate Change Technologies - Biomass Energy (PDF, 2 pp., 54 KB)
- Climate Change Policies - State Energy Codes (PDF, 2 pp., 57 KB)
- Climate Change Technologies - Geothermal Heat Pumps (PDF, 2 pp., 39 KB)
- Climate Change Solutions - Oregon Switches To Cleaner Power (PDF, 4 pp., 206 KB)
- Climate Change Solutions - Vermont Trims Energy Bills for Low Income Families (PDF, 4 pp., 262 KB)
- Climate Change Solutions - Utah's Solar Project Helps Reduce Greenhouse Gases (PDF, 4 pp., 250 KB)
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