Climate and Environment
- Report
The 2022 Long-Term Budget Outlook
The U.S. faces a challenging fiscal outlook according to CBO's extended baseline projections, which show budget deficits and federal debt held by the public growing steadily in relation to gross domestic product over the next three decades.
- Report
Wildfires
CBO analyzes trends in wildfire activity; considers the effects of wildfires on the federal budget, the environment, people’s health, and the economy; and reviews forest-management practices meant to reduce fire-related disasters.
- Presentation
How Carbon Dioxide Emissions Would Respond to a Tax
Presentation by Ron Gecan, an analyst in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies Division, to the Carbon Tax Study Group at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
- Working Paper
How Carbon Dioxide Emissions Would Respond to a Tax or Allowance Price: An Update: Working Paper 2021-16
CBO describes its recent update of parameters that characterize the relationship between emissions of carbon dioxide and changes in the price of those emissions.
- Cost Estimate
Estimated Budgetary Effects of Title VIII, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, for the Senate Amendment to H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act
As Posted on the Website of the Senate Democratic Leadership on December 8, 2021
- Cost Estimate
Estimated Budgetary Effects of Title VII, Committee on Natural Resources, H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act
As Posted on the Website of the House Committee on Rules on November 3, 2021 (Rules Committee Print 117-18), as Amended by Yarmuth Amendment 112
- Presentation
CBO’s Budget and Economic Analysis During the Pandemic
Presentation by Phillip Swagel, CBO’s Director, to the Council for Affordable Health Coverage.
- Presentation
CBO’s Budget and Economic Analysis During the Pandemic
Presentation by Phillip Swagel, CBO’s Director, at Brown University.
- Blog Post
Presentations on CBO’s Budget and Economic Analysis During the Pandemic
CBO’s Director, Phillip Swagel, discusses the agency’s budget and economic analysis during the pandemic.
- Working Paper
Distributional Effects of Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions With a Carbon Tax: Working Paper 2021-11
This paper describes CBO’s method for measuring the distributional effects of a tax on carbon emissions and the agency’s rationale for choosing that method, while also comparing it with CBO’s prior method and methods used by other researchers.