Common Resources
A blog that offers timely analysis and commentary about pressing environmental and energy issues.
Common Resources Archive
Quick Takes on Climate and Energy after the 2018 US Midterm Elections
Nov. 7, 2018
Can US Capacity Markets Keep Up with an Evolving Electric Grid?
Nov. 6, 2018
PJM and ISO-NE Tackle Capacity Market Reform: Did They Succeed?
Nov. 5, 2018
Washington State’s I-1631 Isn’t (Primarily) a Carbon Tax Initiative
Nov. 5, 2018
Will Voters Set Back Oil and Gas Development in Colorado?
Nov. 2, 2018
Agencies Should Account for Credit Trading in Estimating Costs of CAFE Compliance
Nov. 1, 2018
Determining WTO-Compliant Border Tax Adjustments for 35 Energy-Intense, Trade-Exposed Industries
Oct. 30, 2018
RFF Comments on NHTSA and EPA Fuel Economy and GHG Standards
Oct. 26, 2018
Missing Fuel Cost Savings: Some Clues Emerge
Oct. 9, 2018
RFF President Richard Newell Receives the USAEE Adelman-Frankel Award
Sept. 28, 2018
Marking a Decade of Climate Cap and Trade Policy Leadership
Sept. 25, 2018
The Outdoor Recreation Economy and Public Lands
Sept. 25, 2018
The Case of the Disappearing Fuel Cost Savings
Sept. 24, 2018
Relaxing EPA’s Methane Rule: Should It Stay or Should It Go?
Sept. 20, 2018
Recovering from Disasters: Evaluating FEMA’s Housing Assistance Program in the 2017 Hurricane Season
Sept. 19, 2018
A Giant Rebound? How the Coupling of ACE and Federal Energy Policies to Protect Coal Could Drive Up CO2 Emissions
Sept. 18, 2018
Critiquing the Trump Administration’s Analysis of Consumer Behavior in the Proposed CAFE Standards
Sept. 17, 2018
EPA's ANPRM on Increasing Consistency and Transparency in Benefit Cost Analysis
Sept. 17, 2018
Can Fleeting Public Interest in Wildfire Risk Drive Long-Term Change?
Sept. 13, 2018
New satellite data: Twice as many Americans live in counties not meeting fine particulate air quality standards as previously thought.
Sept. 12, 2018
Air Pollution and Trump’s CAFE Proposal
Sept. 11, 2018
Why and How Do New Vehicle Fuel Economy Standards Affect Consumer Vehicle Purchases?
Sept. 4, 2018
Ancillary Benefits Redux: We Can’t Afford the Affordable Clean Energy Rule
Aug. 31, 2018
Changing the Game for Coal: How Federal Energy Policies Could Impact Coal Plant Retirement
Aug. 30, 2018