Brookings - Sizing the Clean Economy: A National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment, 2011
The measurements, trends, and discussions offered in this report provide an encouraging but also challenging assessment of the ongoing development of the clean economy in the United States and its regions.

Massachusetts Energy Efficiency Advisory Council - Efficiency as Our First Fuel: Strategic Investments in Massachusetts' Energy Future, 2011
The Massachusetts Energy Efficiency Advisory Council (EEAC) was created by the Green Communities Act of 2008. The EEAC is chaired by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER). Its primary role is to achieve and fulfill the efficiency requirements, goals, and obligations of the Act. This report explores the Program Administrators‘ current three-year plan which represents one of the most ambitious energy efficiency efforts anywhere in the United States.

Environmental Energy Technologies Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Driving Demand for Home Energy Improvements Part I and Part II, 2010
This report addresses questions of how to scale up energy efficiency to a level that is commensurate to both the energy and climate challenges we face, and to the potential energy savings that has been touted for decades.  

Progressive States Network - Green Buildings and Job Creation Model Legislation, 2010
The Progressive States Network developed cost-neutral model legislation, based on state best practices, to establish standards for energy efficient buildings that make use of Federal recovery funds to finance residential and public building retrofits.

U.S. Green Building Council, Chicago Chapter - Regional Green Building Case Study Project: A Post-Occupancy Study of LEED Projects, 2009
The U.S. Green Building Council's Chicago Chapter examines post-occupancy performance data, costs, and benefits of 25 LEED-certified buildings in terms of energy and water efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions, occupant comfort, and other performance indicators.

National Resource Defense Council - Fighting Oil Addiction: Ranking States' Oil Vulnerability and Solution for Change, 2009
Our national addiction to oil affects every state. However, the rankings in this report clearly show that oil dependence hits drivers in certain states harder than others. This report highlights the disparate impact of high oil prices on individual states.

Center for Progressive Reform - Restoring the Trust: An Index of State Constitutional and Statutory Provisions and Cases on Water Resources and the Public Trust Doctrine, 2009
After decades of unwise water policies and practices, water resources in the United States are increasingly overdrawn and overwhelmed. This report explores the application of the public trust doctrine to the protection of surface water and groundwater resources.

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - The Impact of Wind Power Projects on Residential Property Values in the United States, 2009
The report has found no conclusive evidence that wind power projects produce a negative impact on rediential housing values. Specifically, neither the view of the wind facilities nor the distance of the home ot those facilities is found to have any consistent, measurable, and statisically significant effect on home sales prices.

Environment America Research and Policy Center - America on the Move: State Leadership in the Fight Against Global Warming, and What it Means for the World, 2009
Over the last decade, America’s state governments have taken the nation on a different course one of innovation and increasingly aggressive action to reduce global warming pollution. The impact to state-level actions to reduce global warming pollution is significant on a global scale.

Clean Edge - Five Emerging U.S. Public Finance Models: Powering Clean-Tech Economic Growth and Job Creation, 2009
CNT - Regional Green Building Case Study Project, 2009
This new study released by the U.S. Green Building Council’s Chicago Chapter examines post-occupancy performance data, costs and benefits of 25 LEED-certified buildings in terms of energy and water efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions, occupant comfort, and other performance indicators.

PEW - The Clean Energy Economy, 2009
The emerging clean energy economy has grown considerably— extending to all 50 states, engaging a wide variety of workers and generating new industries. Between 1998 and 2007, its jobs grew at a faster rate than overall jobs.

Center for State Innovation - Appliance Efficiency Standards, 2008
A modest reduction in energy consumption by appliances —from computers to toasters—could significantly reduce a household's energy cost.
 

Center for State Innovation - Net Metering, 2008
States can promote energy generation and lower energy consumption by allowing homes and businesses to capture the full benefit of the electricity they generate through wind turbines or solar panels, and sell surplus energy back to the grid.
 

Center for State Innovation - Utility Revenue Decoupling, 2008
Lowering energy consumption saves consumers money, conserves resources for future use, and reduces pollution, but contrary to these benefits, utility companies often have a financial incentive to increase consumption. Utility revenue decoupling is a way to eliminates the systemic bias that encourages higher consumption.
  

Bill Prindle – Energy Efficiency, 2008
By focusing on energy efficiency a governor can reduce costs to consumers, businesses, and government and create a more robust, reliable, and sustainable economy. 

Center for State Innovation - Clean Cars (Model Legislation), 2008
The exhaust from internal combustion engines contains many harmful by-products that are a danger to public health. States can mitigate this danger by enacting stricter emissions standards.
 

Center for State Innovation - Green Buildings (Model Legislation), 2008
Buildings have a huge impact on our consumption of energy and the quality of our environment. Getting energy use and pollution under control, necessitates the implementation of stricter energy efficiency standards for new and existing buildings.

COWS – Greener Pathways, 2008
Building a competitive and equitable green economy means investing in the backbone of America’s labor force: workers with more than high school, but less than a four-year degree. The new energy economy will be built and sustained by middle-skill workers in traditional occupations using many skills used existing sectors of the economy.