Common Resources
A blog that offers timely analysis and commentary about pressing environmental and energy issues.
Common Resources Archive
Reforming China’s Electricity System: Unsuccessful Attempts and New Proposals
April 12, 2017
Awarding Indigenous Communities Land Titles Reduces Tropical Forest Damage
April 3, 2017
Indigenous Peoples’ Role in Protecting Forests: Podcast with RFF Fellow Allen Blackman
April 3, 2017
RFF President Richard Newell on “Energy Independence”
March 30, 2017
Congressional Testimony: Principles for Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform
March 29, 2017
Trump’s Climate Executive Order Discards American Values
March 28, 2017
Conservatives' Embrace of a Carbon Tax Requires Revisiting the Coal Impact
March 28, 2017
Neither Side Gets Its Science Right in Maryland Fracking Ban Debate
March 22, 2017
What Can States Do to Reduce GHG Emissions from the Transportation Sector? A Podcast with Virginia McConnell
March 20, 2017
Learning About Earth from Space: New RFF Podcast on the Value of Data from Satellites
March 13, 2017
Trump’s Regulatory Task Force Executive Order: Is the Tiger Paper?
Feb. 28, 2017
An Ounce of Prevention: New RFF Podcast on Federal Flood Expenditures
Feb. 16, 2017
Doubling Down on Trump’s Two-for-One Regulatory Reform
Feb. 7, 2017
Revisiting the Keystone XL Pipeline’s Issues and Non-Issues
Feb. 1, 2017
Two for One: Too Blunt an Instrument for Good Governance?
Jan. 31, 2017
Managing Revenues through a Downturn in Texas’s Eagle Ford Shale
Jan. 30, 2017
Clarifying the Role of Behavioral Economics in Improving Policy Design
Jan. 24, 2017
Takeaways from Rick Perry's Confirmation Hearing for Secretary of Energy
Jan. 19, 2017
How Pruitt’s Hearing Illuminated His View of His Role as EPA Administrator
Jan. 19, 2017
Coastal Protected Lands and Sea-Level Rise
Jan. 19, 2017
Fuel Economy Standards: Take the Time to Get It Right
Jan. 18, 2017
Impressions: Rep. Zinke’s Nomination Hearing to be Secretary of the Interior
Jan. 18, 2017
The Paris Agreement under Trump and the Merits of an Economy-Wide Carbon Tax
Jan. 17, 2017
Saving Coal: Reprieve Through Carbon Capture and Sequestration?
Jan. 4, 2017
