Common Resources
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Common Resources Archive

Conversations on Climate Challenges: Natural Disasters, Risk, and Survey Data
Sept. 29, 2020

The Economic and Emissions Consequences of Supply-Side Reforms to Oil and Gas Production on Federal Lands
Sept. 16, 2020

Equitable Transition to a Low-Emissions Future: Environmental Remediation and Infrastructure
Sept. 15, 2020

Look Before You Leap: Three Governance Challenges for Taxpayer-Funded Cleanup of Oil and Gas Wells
Sept. 9, 2020

The Consequences of Climate Change Are Already Visible in Siberia
Sept. 2, 2020

Subsidy Structure Could Be a Speed Bump for Chuck Schumer's Clean Car Adoption Plan
Aug. 24, 2020

The Trump Administration Ignores Key Alternatives with New Methane Regulation Rollback
Aug. 19, 2020

Equitable Transition to a Low-Emissions Future: Economic Development
Aug. 11, 2020

The Value of Tax Adjustment Mechanisms for Designing Carbon Taxes
Aug. 7, 2020

Policy Options for an Equitable Transition to a Low-Emissions Future
Aug. 4, 2020

Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Electricity: An Early Look at New England
July 30, 2020

COVID-19 Has Delayed Global Climate Talks, but Viable Climate Change Mitigation Strategies Still Exist
July 27, 2020

The Science of Forecasting: The Special Sauce
July 27, 2020

The Trump Administration’s Regulatory Repeal Agenda Faces Another Setback. How did the Court do on Its Economics?
July 24, 2020

The Potential for Plugging Abandoned Wells as Green Economic Stimulus
July 23, 2020

Improving the Scientific Basis for Estimating the Social Cost of Carbon
July 17, 2020

Conversations on Climate Challenges: Wildfire Policy and Public Health
July 9, 2020

A Close Look at the New Report from the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis
July 6, 2020

Solar Radiation Management as a Climate Intervention: An Extended Q&A from the RFF Live Webinar
July 2, 2020

Quantifying the Socioeconomic Benefits of Using Satellite Data to Detect Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms
June 26, 2020

Dam Breaches in Michigan Raise Questions for Dam Maintenance Across the Nation
May 27, 2020

National Park Gateway Communities, the Outdoor Recreation Economy, and COVID-19
May 22, 2020

Eulogy for Stephen P. A. Brown, Economics Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
May 15, 2020

The State of Global Climate Policy after the Delay of COP26
May 15, 2020