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Hazy Treatment of Health Benefits: The Case of the Clean Power Plan
Oct. 13, 2017

Muddying the Waters of the United States: Trump Administration Takes Aim at EPA Rule
Oct. 11, 2017

Casey Wichman on Global versus Domestic Benefits in Assessing US Climate Action
Oct. 11, 2017

Are Floods Getting Worse for the National Flood Insurance Program?
Oct. 11, 2017

Unpacking the Administration’s Revised Social Cost of Carbon
Oct. 10, 2017

Truth in Advertising: Will the Trump Administration’s Proposed Methane Rule Deferral Save on Costs?
Oct. 5, 2017

New Issue of Resources Magazine: Fall 2017
Oct. 5, 2017

Climate Hawks in the Trump Administration
Oct. 2, 2017

Carbon Tax Calculator
Sept. 25, 2017

New RFF Vice President for Land, Water, and Nature: Ann M. Bartuska
Sept. 25, 2017

How Should We Adapt to a Changing Climate?
Sept. 25, 2017

Why Don’t More People Buy Flood Insurance?
Sept. 6, 2017

Managing Invasive Species with the Help of Public Participation
Aug. 31, 2017

How Reliable Is DOE’s Grid Reliability Study?
Aug. 28, 2017

A Bad Idea: Subsidizing Coal
Aug. 11, 2017

On the Health Impacts of Fracking: Where the Public Debate Misses the Mark
Aug. 11, 2017

Carbon Capture and Sequestration Is Needed and Improving Despite Kemper Project Shutdown
Aug. 3, 2017

Understanding Pennsylvania’s Proposed Severance Tax
Aug. 1, 2017

California Takes an Important and Unified Step on Climate Change
July 18, 2017

Mitigation Post-Flood: FEMA’s Increased Cost of Compliance (ICC) Coverage
July 7, 2017

EPA’s Methane Rule: Should It Stay or Should It Go?
July 6, 2017

A Look at President Trump’s Energy Speech
June 30, 2017

Ocean Optimism 2017: Seeing Opportunities in the Challenges
June 29, 2017

Addressing Uncertainty in Carbon Tax Design
June 23, 2017