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Economic Reregulation, Environmental Deregulation, and the Future of US Coal-Fired Generation

Economic Reregulation, Environmental Deregulation, and the Future of US Coal-Fired Generation

Karen Palmer

Oct. 17, 2017

DOE’s Grid Resiliency Pricing Rule: Does It Address Market Failures?

DOE’s Grid Resiliency Pricing Rule: Does It Address Market Failures?

Tim Brennan

Oct. 16, 2017

Big Steps, High Stakes: Preparing to Trade Carbon Dioxide in China

Big Steps, High Stakes: Preparing to Trade Carbon Dioxide in China

Lawrence H. Goulder, Valerie Karplus, and Richard D. Morgenstern

Oct. 16, 2017

Climate Change and the "Confidence Trap": A Podcast with Roger Cooke

Climate Change and the "Confidence Trap": A Podcast with Roger Cooke

Peter Nelson and Roger Cooke

Oct. 15, 2017

Hazy Treatment of Health Benefits: The Case of the Clean Power Plan

Hazy Treatment of Health Benefits: The Case of the Clean Power Plan

Alan Krupnick and Amelia Keyes

Oct. 13, 2017

Muddying the Waters of the United States: Trump Administration Takes Aim at EPA Rule

Muddying the Waters of the United States: Trump Administration Takes Aim at EPA Rule

Alan Krupnick and Justine Huetteman

Oct. 11, 2017

Casey Wichman on Global versus Domestic Benefits in Assessing US Climate Action

Casey Wichman on Global versus Domestic Benefits in Assessing US Climate Action

Peter Nelson

Oct. 11, 2017

Are Floods Getting Worse for the National Flood Insurance Program?

Are Floods Getting Worse for the National Flood Insurance Program?

Carolyn Kousky and Brett Lingle

Oct. 11, 2017

Unpacking the Administration’s Revised Social Cost of Carbon

Unpacking the Administration’s Revised Social Cost of Carbon

Richard G. Newell

Oct. 10, 2017

Truth in Advertising: Will the Trump Administration’s Proposed Methane Rule Deferral Save on Costs?

Truth in Advertising: Will the Trump Administration’s Proposed Methane Rule Deferral Save on Costs?

Alan Krupnick and Isabel Echarte

Oct. 5, 2017

New Issue of Resources Magazine: Fall 2017

New Issue of Resources Magazine: Fall 2017

Peter Nelson

Oct. 5, 2017

Climate Hawks in the Trump Administration

Climate Hawks in the Trump Administration

Joel Darmstadter

Oct. 2, 2017

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Carbon Tax Calculator

Marc Hafstead

Sept. 25, 2017

New RFF Vice President for Land, Water, and Nature: Ann M. Bartuska

New RFF Vice President for Land, Water, and Nature: Ann M. Bartuska

Peter Nelson

Sept. 25, 2017

How Should We Adapt to a Changing Climate?

How Should We Adapt to a Changing Climate?

Peter Nelson

Sept. 25, 2017

Why Don’t More People Buy Flood Insurance?

Why Don’t More People Buy Flood Insurance?

Andrew Royal and Margaret A. Walls

Sept. 6, 2017

Managing Invasive Species with the Help of Public Participation

Managing Invasive Species with the Help of Public Participation

Rebecca Epanchin-Niell

Aug. 31, 2017

How Reliable Is DOE’s Grid Reliability Study?

How Reliable Is DOE’s Grid Reliability Study?

Alan Krupnick, Daniel Shawhan, and Paul Picciano

Aug. 28, 2017

A Bad Idea: Subsidizing Coal

A Bad Idea: Subsidizing Coal

Alan Krupnick

Aug. 11, 2017

On the Health Impacts of Fracking: Where the Public Debate Misses the Mark

On the Health Impacts of Fracking: Where the Public Debate Misses the Mark

Isabel Echarte and Alan Krupnick

Aug. 11, 2017

Carbon Capture and Sequestration Is Needed and Improving Despite Kemper Project Shutdown

Carbon Capture and Sequestration Is Needed and Improving Despite Kemper Project Shutdown

Alan Krupnick and Jan Mares

Aug. 3, 2017

Understanding Pennsylvania’s Proposed Severance Tax

Understanding Pennsylvania’s Proposed Severance Tax

Daniel Raimi

Aug. 1, 2017

California Takes an Important and Unified Step on Climate Change

California Takes an Important and Unified Step on Climate Change

Dallas Burtraw

July 18, 2017

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Mitigation Post-Flood: FEMA’s Increased Cost of Compliance (ICC) Coverage

Brett Lingle and Carolyn Kousky

July 7, 2017