Environmental Economics Reports

EPA economists generate many reports and publications to both further the science of environmental economics and support specific Agency priorities. 

Select EPA Reports on Environmental Economics

• America's Children and the Environment: Measures of Contaminants, Body Burden and Illnesses (2013)
• The Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act, 1970 to 1990 (1997)
• The Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act 1990-2020, the Second Prospective Study (2011)
• Environmental Economics Research Strategy (2005)
• Guidelines for Preparing Economic Analyses (2010, Chapter 10 update 2014)
• Handbook on Valuing Changes in Time Use (2020)
• SAB review of proposed revisions to Guidelines for Preparing Economic Analyses (2020)  
• Handbook on the Benefits, Costs, and Impacts of Land Cleanup and Reuse (2011)
• Handbook on Valuing Children's Health (2001)
• Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures: 2005 Survey (2008)
• Retrospective Study of the Costs of EPA Regulations: A Report of Four Case Studies (2014)
• The United States Experience with Economic Incentives for Protecting the Environment (2001)

Databases with Other Reports

• NCEE Economic Reports - This database contains documents authored by staff in EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE) or prepared under a contract, grant, or cooperative agreement that was overseen by NCEE (or its predecessors). Many of the older documents are not 508 compliant. Please contact NCEE if you need them in another format.
• Regulatory Economic Analyses - This database has moved to the EPA library in Washington, D.C. It contains over 4,500 regulatory economic analyses prepared by EPA, including Cost-Benefit Analyses, Economic Impact Assessments, Environmental Impact Statements, Environmental Justice Assessments, and others.
• Grant-Funded Research in Environmental Economics - This page lists reports developed under environmental economics-related grants made by EPA's Office of Research and Development, NCEE and their partners since 1990.