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$AFETY PAYS
By US Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Help employers analyze the financial impacts of occupational injuries and illnesses that cause Lost Work Days. It uses AVERAGE direct and indirect costs to estimate the sales that might be needed by your company to cover the costs of those occupational injuries and illnesses.
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ABEL Model
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. The ABEL Model evaluates a corporation's or partnership's claim that it cannot afford compliance costs, clean-up costs, or civil penalties.
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Air Compliance Advisor (ACA)
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS). Addresses air pollution compliance management issues. The ACA can estimate the cost and applicability of control devices and estimate the cost of ancillary control equipment, estimate emission rates, and provide guidance with the applicability of federal regulations.
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BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability)
By National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Building and Fire Research Laboratory. Software for balancing the environmental and economic performance of building products. BEES measures the environmental performance of building products by using the environmental life-cycle assessment approach in ISO 14000 standards.
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BEN Model
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. The BEN Model calculates a violator's economic savings from delaying and/or avoiding pollution control expenditures.
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Cost of Coal on a Cents-per-Million-BTU Basis
By Evomarkets LLC. Find ¢/mm BTU using delivered price and BTU/lb. (No cost, but you must register to obtain access)
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CroPMan
By US Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. A production-risk management model designed to help agricultural practitioners optimize crop management and maximize production and profit, to identify limitations to crop yield, to assist growers with replant decisions, and to identify best management practices that minimize the impact of agriculture on soil erosion and water quality. It is a windows-based application of EPIC (Environmental/Policy Integrated Climate model) originally developed by USDA-ARS that simulates the interaction of natural resources (soil, water, climate) and crop management practices to estimate impacts on harvested crop yield, soil properties, soil erosion, profitability, and nutrient/pesticide fate. Only available to researchers.
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Delivered Price on a $/Ton Basis
By Evomarkets LLC. Find delivered price of coal using ¢/mm BTU and BTU/lb. (No cost, but you must register to obtain access)
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EconDoc Exchange
By US Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. Follows the AAEA Cost and Return Equations and provides nationally consistent base data for crop, livestock, and conservation practice budgeting.
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Environmental Accounting Case Studies
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Accounting Project. Archives of a collection of various environmental accounting case studies. Each case study demonstrates the financial results of actual environmental accounting applications. The intent of these case studies is to demonstrate how the application of environmental accounting principles can have a direct, positive, bottom-line effect on business operations.
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Environmental Planning for Small Communities (TRILOGY)
By US Environmental Protection Agency and Purdue University. An introduction to a wide range of environmental issues and decisions that affect small to medium-sized communities. It offers communities the chance to judge their own needs and preferences, and to make informed decisions on their own. Major sections cover: environmental laws and regulations, self-assessment planning and comparative risk analysis, financial tools and financial self-analysis, case studies, and contact and information directory. Each section includes interactive tools, such as a notebook tool to fill in and save survey forms and keep notes. The program combines and integrates numerous publications from Federal agencies and States like Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, and Utah.
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Environmentally Related Taxes Database
By Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Commission. Find details concerning environmentally related taxes, fees and charges levied in OECD Member countries.
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Erosion-Productivity Impact Calculator (WinEPIC)
By US Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. Assesses the effect of soil erosion on soil productivity. Also called Environmental Policy Integrated Climate. Only available to researchers.
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Global Emission Model for Integrated Systems (GEMIS)
By Institute for Applied Ecology e.V.. A life-cycle analysis (LCA) model, LCA database, and cost-emission analysis system. GEMIS evaluates environmental impacts of energy, material and transport systems, i.e. air emissions, greenhouse gases, solid/liquid wastes, and land use. Also GEMIS can determine the economic costs of scenario options.
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Global Reporting Initiative Guidelines (G3)
By Global Reporting Initiative. This framework for sustainability reporting enables companies to prepare comparable reports on their economic, environmental, and social performance.
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Global Reporting Initiative Guidelines: G3 Online
By Global Reporting Initiative. This online framework for sustainability reporting enables companies to prepare comparable reports on their economic, environmental, and social performance.
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INDIPAY Model
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. The INDIPAY Model evaluates an individual taxpayer's claim that it cannot afford compliance costs, clean-up costs, or civil penalties.
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MUNIPAY Model
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. The MUNIPAY Model evaluates a municipality's, town's, sewer authority's, or drinking water authority's claim that it cannot afford compliance costs, clean-up costs, or civil penalties.
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National Environmental Methods Index (NEMI)
By National Water Quality Monitoring Council (NWQMC). Compare and contrast the performance and relative cost of analytical, test, and sampling methods for environmental monitoring.
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Proform
By Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. ProForm is a software tool designed to support a basic assessment of the environmental and financial impacts of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. Given the necessary data, ProForm calculates basic financial indicators and avoided emissions of CO2 and local air pollutants expected from a project. Registration required.
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PROJECT Model
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. The PROJECT Model calculates the real cost to a defendant of a proposed supplemental environmental project.
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Regulatory Economic Analyses Inventory
By US Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE). A database of a variety of regulatory economic analyses on most major US regulations. Some of the recent ones are available for download.
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SD Planner
By Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI). A self-assessment tool designed to help companies evaluate, plan for and integrate sustainable development into business processes. The tool addresses all three aspects of sustainable development: environmental impact, economic development, and social equity as well as activities that can be undertaken toward achieving those goals. Use of this tool will assist companies in identifying the critical sustainable development issues that are important to business activities.
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Value of SO2 Differential Between Two Coals
By Evomarkets LLC. Find the $/ton differential between two coals based on the spot SO2 emission price. (No cost, but you must register to obtain access)
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