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 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. These reports can be viewed by:
  • Title
  • Economic Topic
  • Environmental Topic
• Regulatory Economic Analyses - This database 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. These reports can be viewed by:
  • Title
  • Assessment Topic (economic and environmental topics)
• Grant-Funded Research in Environmental Economics - This database contains reports developed under environmental economics-related grants made by EPA's Office of Research and Development, NCEE and their partners since 1990.