Economic Impacts of the NRDC Carbon Standard
Natural Resources Defense Council
Completed June 2013
Synapse examined the economic impacts of NRDC’s proposed carbon emissions standard for existing power plants under the Clean Air Act’s Section 111(d), including estimation of the changes in employment, state and national income, and consumer utility bills in 14 states and for the United States as a whole for wind, solar, coal, natural gas, and energy efficiency resources.