Climate and Environment
- Report
Emissions of Carbon Dioxide in the Transportation Sector
CBO provides an overview of emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2, the most common greenhouse gas) in the transportation sector, describing the sources of and trends in such emissions and projecting their future path.
- Report
Options for Reducing the Deficit, 2023 to 2032--Volume I: Larger Reductions
CBO issues a volume describing 17 policy options that would each reduce the federal budget deficit by more than $300 billion over the next 10 years or, in the case of Social Security options, have a comparably large effect in later decades.
- Report
How CBO Analyzes Public-Private Risk Sharing in Insurance Markets
CBO outlines how it analyzes public-private risk sharing in the federal terrorism insurance, crop insurance, and flood insurance programs. The agency also describes how that risk sharing affects the federal budget.
- Report
Army Corps of Engineers: Budgetary History and Projections
CBO examines trends in funding and spending for the Army Corps of Engineers and explains how CBO treats that agency’s activities in its baseline and cost estimates.
- Report
FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund: Budgetary History and Projections
CBO examines trends in funding and spending for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Disaster Relief Fund and provides information about how CBO treats that program in its baseline and cost estimates.
- Presentation
CBO’s Role in Assessing Climate Change and Climate Change Policy
Presentation by Nicholas Chase, a Unit Chief in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies Division, to the Department of Energy and the United States Energy Association, Workshop on Macroeconomic Effects of a Low-Carbon Transition.
- Report
How CBO Analyzes the Effects of Charging the Oil and Gas Industry for Methane Emissions
CBO describes how imposing a charge for methane emissions generally affects emissions, companies’ costs, and natural gas prices and discusses how the agency analyzes such a charge.
- Cost Estimate
Letter to the Honorable Bernie Sanders About Reconciliation Legislation Passed by the Senate
As Passed by the Senate on August 7, 2022
- Cost Estimate
Estimated Budgetary Effects of H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
As Amended in the Nature of a Substitute (ERN22335) and Posted on the Website of the Senate Majority Leader on July 27, 2022
- Cost Estimate
H.R. 3228, a bill to direct the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to improve science, data, and services that enable sound decision making in response to coastal flood risk, inc
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on January 19, 2022