Public Service
RFF and its scholars enhance the public policy dialogue in many ways beyond particular research projects. For decades the RFF Seminar Series has provided the Washington community with a weekly forum in which scholars, journalists, advocates, and policymakers intersect. RFF also regularly hosts special events and conferences.
Through unpaid service on nonprofit boards, as advisors to government agencies, and as members of prestigious domestic and international panels and commissions, RFF scholars provide expertise to a broad range of organizations. In addition, RFF scholars provide Congressional Testimony on pressing legislative matters.
RFF scholars actively contribute to the work of numerous organizations, including:
- Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
- Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets
- Environmental Literacy Council
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- National Academy of Science
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Regulatory Research Institute
- National Research Council
- New Jersey Comparative Risk Project
- North Carolina State University
- Project Learning Tree
- Resolve, Inc.
- Royal Society of Canada
- The Johnson Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. Department of State
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- U.S. Government Accounting Office
- University of Maine
- Western Consensus Council and Consensus Building Institute
- World Health Organization
- World Bank