@article {395081,
	title = {Federal Coal Program Reform, the Clean Power Plan, and the Interaction of Upstream and Downstream Climate Policies.},
	journal = {American Economic Journal: Economic Policy},
	volume = {12},
	number = {1},
	year = {2020},
	pages = {167-99},
	abstract = {Coal mined on federally managed lands accounts for approximately 40\% of U.S. coal consumption and 13\% of total U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions. The U.S. Department of the Interior is undertaking a programmatic review of federal coal leasing, including the climate effects of burning federal coal. This paper studies the interaction between a specific upstream policy, incorporating a carbon adder into federal coal royalties, and downstream emissions regulation under the Clean Power Plan (CPP). After providing some comparative statics, wepresent quantitative results from a detailed dynamic model of the power sector, the Integrated Planning Model (IPM). The IPM analysis indicates that, in the absence of the CPP, a royalty adder equal to the social cost of carbon could reduce emissions by roughly {\textthreequarters} of the emissions reduction that the CPP is projected to achieve. If instead the CPP is binding, the royalty adder would: reduce the price of tradeable emissions allowances, produce some additional emissions reductions by reducing leakage, and reduce wholesale power prices under a mass-based CPP but increase them under a rate-based CPP. A federal royalty adder increases mining of non-federal coal, but this substitution is limited by a shift to electricity generation by gas and renewables.Key words: extraction royalties, social cost of carbonJEL codes: Q54, Q58, Q38},
	author = {Gerarden, Todd and Reeder, W. Spencer and James H. Stock}
}
