A Low Carbon Fuel Standard: State and Federal Legislation and Regulations (open access)

A Low Carbon Fuel Standard: State and Federal Legislation and Regulations

This report examines the merit and potential issues of adopting a Low Carbon Fuel Standard. The report uses California as a point of reference to compare to proposed federal standards.
Date: December 23, 2008
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Low Carbon Fuel Standard: State and Federal Legislation and Regulations (open access)

A Low Carbon Fuel Standard: State and Federal Legislation and Regulations

This report analyzes the draft California standards, and discusses how those standards might work. Next, the report analyzes federal Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) legislation proposed in the 110th Congress. Finally, the report analyzes what effects an LCFS might have on state and national fuel supplies.
Date: December 23, 2008
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regulation of Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions: State and Federal Standards (open access)

Regulation of Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions: State and Federal Standards

This report discusses the federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards (including tighter standards enacted under P.L. 110-140) and compares them with the GHG standards under California’s law. It also identifies some factors that would have a bearing on the relative stringency of CAFE and the California program.
Date: January 11, 2008
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automobile and Light Truck Fuel Economy: The CAFE Standards (open access)

Automobile and Light Truck Fuel Economy: The CAFE Standards

This report discusses the current corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standard of 35 miles per gallon (mpg), and the major issues on the CAFE debate. The report also offers an overview of Congressional interest in CAFE (1991-2005), and explains the CAFE and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions.
Date: May 7, 2008
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D. & Bamberger, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automobile and Light Truck Fuel Economy: The CAFE Standards (open access)

Automobile and Light Truck Fuel Economy: The CAFE Standards

This report discusses the current corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standard of 35 miles per gallon (mpg), and the major issues on the CAFE debate. The report also offers an overview of Congressional interest in CAFE (1991-2005), and explains the CAFE and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions.
Date: May 7, 2008
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D. & Bamberger, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change: Comparison of S. 2191 as Reported (now S. 3036) with Proposed Boxer Amendment (open access)

Climate Change: Comparison of S. 2191 as Reported (now S. 3036) with Proposed Boxer Amendment

This report discusses S. 2191 (the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008), which was reintroduced as S. 3036 with a deficit reduction amendment. In particular, it provides a comparison of five key differences between the bill and the proposed Boxer Amendment.
Date: May 30, 2008
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D. & Parker, Larry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change: Comparison of S. 2191 as Reported (now S. 3036) with Proposed Boxer Amendment (open access)

Climate Change: Comparison of S. 2191 as Reported (now S. 3036) with Proposed Boxer Amendment

This report discusses S. 2191 (the Lieberman-Warner CLimate Security Act of 2008), which was reintroduced as S. 3036 with a deficit reduction amendment. In particular, it provides a comparison of five key differences between the bill and the proposed Boxer Amendment.
Date: May 30, 2008
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D. & Parker, Larry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change: Federal Laws and Policies Related to Greenhouse Gas Reductions (open access)

Climate Change: Federal Laws and Policies Related to Greenhouse Gas Reductions

This report provides background on the evolution of U.S. climate change policy, from ratification of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to the George W. Bush Administration's 2001 rejection of the Kyoto Protocol to the present. The report focuses on major regulatory programs that monitor or reduce greenhouse gas emissions, along with their estimated effect on emissions levels.
Date: January 28, 2008
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D. & Parker, Larry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biofuels in the 2007 Energy and Farm Bills: A Side-by-Side Comparison (open access)

Biofuels in the 2007 Energy and Farm Bills: A Side-by-Side Comparison

This report provides a side-by-side comparison of biofuels-related provisions in Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA, P.L. 110-140) with prior law, and with comparable provisions in the House and Senate farm bills.
Date: January 17, 2008
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D.; Schnepf, Randy & Capehart, Tom
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Copyright Licensing in Music Distribution, Reproduction, and Public Performance (open access)

Copyright Licensing in Music Distribution, Reproduction, and Public Performance

This report provides an overview of the complexities of the Copyright Act's Provisions concerning music licensing in the digital age. Copyright law provides protection for original works of authorship by conferring certain exclusive rights upon their creators.
Date: January 29, 2008
Creator: Yeh, Brian T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expanding the Scope of the Public Performance Right for Sound Recordings: A Legal Analysis of the Performance Rights Act of 2007 (H.R. 4789 and S. 2500) (open access)
Intellectual Property Rights Violations: Federal Civil Remedies and Criminal Penalties Related to Copyrights, Trademarks, and Patents (open access)

Intellectual Property Rights Violations: Federal Civil Remedies and Criminal Penalties Related to Copyrights, Trademarks, and Patents

This report provides information describing the federal civil remedies and criminal penalties that may be available as a consequence of violations of the federal intellectual property laws: the Copyright Act of 1976, the Patent Act of 1952, and the Trademark Act of 1946 (conventionally known as the Lanham Act).
Date: October 31, 2008
Creator: Yeh, Brian T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sentencing Levels for Crack and Powder Cocaine: Kimbrough v. United States and the Impact of United States v. Booker (open access)

Sentencing Levels for Crack and Powder Cocaine: Kimbrough v. United States and the Impact of United States v. Booker

This report examines the crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity issue and potential legislative solutions.
Date: January 29, 2008
Creator: Yeh, Brian T. & Doyle, Charles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Funding Levels for Conservation Programs in the 2007 Farm Bill (open access)

Funding Levels for Conservation Programs in the 2007 Farm Bill

Future funding levels for USDA programs, including conservation programs, are among the most contentious issues Congress is addressing in the 2007 farm bill debate. The 110th Congress has adopted a “pay-as-you-go” approach government wide, so that any increase in mandatory funding in one area has to be offset either by equivalent spending reductions in other programs or by revenue increases. This report consists of largely of two tables. The first table summarizes the annual funding provisions, by program, in (1) current law, (2) the House-passed version of H.R. 2419, and (3) the Senate-amended version of H.R. 2419. The second table compares FY2007 authorized and actual funding levels for programs authorized in the 2002 farm bill with FY2008 and FY2012 funding levels that would be authorized in the House and Senate bills.
Date: January 1, 2008
Creator: Zinn, Jeffrey
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soil and Water Conservation: An Overview (open access)

Soil and Water Conservation: An Overview

The report offers the most recent development regarding the soil and water conservation topics and current major conservation activities. The report discusses the farm bill, which the 110th Congress is considering. The House passed its version of the farm bill on July 27, 2007 (H.R. 2419) by a vote of 231 to 191. Numerous options for conservation provisions were offered as the legislation moved through the House, but the conservation title was passed largely as reported by the Agriculture Committee and modified by a chairman's mark.
Date: January 2, 2008
Creator: Zinn, Jeffrey A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pest Management Program: Record of Decision (open access)

Pest Management Program: Record of Decision

Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) Record of Decision regarding document changes in the Pest Management Program (PMP) since 1996 and the potential impact of those changes on the environment.
Date: 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History