Common Resources
A blog that offers timely analysis and commentary about pressing environmental and energy issues.
Common Resources Archive
Why All the Talk about Gas Prices and Fuel Economy Standards?
Aug. 27, 2018
CPP Replacement: Emissions Increase “At the Source”?
Aug. 27, 2018
A Retrospective Look at the 2009 PHMSA Gas Distribution Rule and Its RIA
Aug. 21, 2018
Questions about the Trump Administration’s Cost-Benefit Analysis for its Proposal to Freeze the CAFE Standards
Aug. 20, 2018
Transparency Needed in Trump’s Plan to Partially Repeal PHMSA’s Tank Car Rule
July 20, 2018
GHG vs. GDP: Separating Signal from Noise
July 5, 2018
Adding Environmental Certainty to a Carbon Tax
June 27, 2018
Understanding a New Study on Oil and Gas Methane Emissions
June 25, 2018
Measured Modification to BSEE’s Well Control Rule
June 14, 2018
Climate and Environment in Peril—But What Else is New?
June 13, 2018
Seeing the Forests for the Carbon: Panel Looks for Opportunities and Obstacles
June 8, 2018
The Wall Street Journal is Wrong about Cost-Benefit Analysis at EPA
June 8, 2018
A Strategic Electricity Generating Reserve: Not Enticing Enough to Add to the Menu
June 7, 2018
Governor Brown Names RFF’s Dallas Burtraw as a Carbon Markets Advisor
June 7, 2018
GRACE Mission Analyses Illustrate the Value of Earth Observations
June 4, 2018
Assessing Changes to EPA’s 2016 Rule to Limit Methane Emissions
May 30, 2018
Network Analysis Reveals Hidden Patterns in Fishing Enterprises
May 23, 2018
Will the Paris Agreement Help or Hinder Cooperation among Nations?
May 17, 2018
VALUABLES Consortium Convenes Experts to Explore How to Quantify the Societal Benefits of Earth Observations
May 14, 2018
“Job-Killing” Carbon Taxes?
May 10, 2018
Federal Interventions in Wholesale Power Markets: Examining the Implications for Market Performance and National Security
May 9, 2018
Grid Resilience, Generation Portfolios, and National Security
May 8, 2018
California’s Crude Oil Production and its Climate Change Policies
May 8, 2018
Using Economic Analysis to Address Invasive Species Threats
May 3, 2018
