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Common Resources Archive

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

Funding Conservation: Contrasting Approaches in Federal Programs
April 24, 2018

Decarbonization: It Ain’t That Easy
April 20, 2018

Developing Analysis with the Decisionmaking Scale in Mind
April 12, 2018

New Issue of Resources Magazine: Spring 2018
April 12, 2018