Energy and Environmental Policy

Energy and Environmental Policy

Federal Regulatory Policy and Management provides assessments of issues, existing and proposed policies, and processes used to formulate and implement policies and will provide evaluations on how policies are being implemented and administered.

• The EOP Foundation conducted a study in 1994 under a grant from the Department of Energy on the economics of energy efficiency programs resulting from deregulation of electric utilities.

• The Foundation performed a study in 1997 for the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission on “Budgeting for Federal Water Projects”.

• The Foundation prepared an economic benefit/cost analysis of flood plain mapping modernization for the Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency. The Foundation also prepared analyses of alternative funding mechanism for the flood plain mapping program.

• The Foundation prepared a study on the economics of impact fees as a mechanism to finance local government infrastructure for the South Carolina Policy Council.