RESOURCESfor the FUTUREModeling Industrial SectorGreenhouse Gas EmissionsReduction Policies withPlant-Leve DataWayne Gray,Joshua Linn,and Richard MorgensternWorking Paper 24-10July 2024About the AuthorsWayne Gray holds the John T.Croteau Chair in Economics at Clark University.He'staught at Clark since 1984,when he received his PhD in Economics from HarvardUniversity.Professor Gray is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau ofEconomic Research and the Executive Director of the Boston Federal StatisticalResearch Data Center.His research focuses on regulatory effectiveness and theeconomic consequences of government regulation of environmental and workplacehazards.He has studied regulation's impact on employment,productivity,investmentand plant location,primarily using plant-level manufacturing data,as well asdemonstrating improvements in workplace safety and health,regulatory complianceand pollution emissions..Joshua Linn is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economicsat the University of Maryland and a senior fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF).His research centers on the effects of environmental policies and economic incentivesfor new technologies in the transportation,electricity,and industrial sectors.Histransportation research assesses passenger vehicle taxation and fuel economystandards in the United States and Europe.He has examined the effects of Beijing'svehicle ownership restrictions on travel behavior,labor supply,and fertility.Richard Morgenstern is a senior fellow at RFF.His research focuses on the economicanalysis of environmental issues with an emphasis on the costs,benefits,evaluation,and design of environmental policies,especially economic incentive measures.Hisanalysis also focuses on climate change,including the design of cost-effective policiesto reduce emissions in the United States and abroad.About the ProjectThe authors acknowledge highly competent research assistance from Jordan Burt andvery useful comments on earlier paper drafts from Gale Boyd,Gunther Glenk,SharatGanapati,Valerie Karplus,William Pizer and Jeffrey Rissman.This research has beensupported by a grant from Breakthrough Energy to Resources for the Future.Anyviews expressed are those of the authors and not those of the US Census Bureau.TheCensus Bureau has reviewed this data product to ensure appropriate access,use,anddisclosure avoidance protection of the confidential source data used to produce thisproduct.This research was performed at the Boston Federal Statistical Research DataCenter under FSRDC Project Number 1473(CBDRB-FY24-0172).Resources for the Futurei