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Resources Fall/ Winter 2008 : Regulating the Power Market Across America

				Electricity Markets and Energy Security: Friends or Foes? RFF Senior Fellow Timothy J. Brennan examines the extent to which overall energy security is affected by competition in the electricity sector. Endangered Species: Progress and Pitfalls During Three Decades of Controversy. RFF Fellow Carolyn Fischer interviews Michael Bean, one of the nation's foremost authorities on the Endangered Species Act of 1973, on the policy questions around endangered species and its future.
	A Recipe to Fight Vitamin A Deficiency in India: Add Mustard and Stir? RFF Senior Fellow Ramanan Laxminarayan, Jeffrey Chow, Eili Klien and Paula Tarnapol Whitacre examine the merits of a new tool for combating Vitamin A deficiency, a significant cause of blindness and death, especially for children and for pregnant and lactating women, that is prevalent in more than 100 countries around the world. RFF Annual Report 2007

"Climate Change: A Global Problem Requiring a Global Solution. Or Not.."Kathleen McGinty, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and former chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, discussed the ability of existing approaches- such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, and corn-based ethanol- to address climate change.

Sample Representativeness. Senior Fellow Alan Krupnick and David A. Evans have released the proceedings from the workshop they hosted exploring sample representatives in stated preference surveys.

Cap, Auction and Trade: Auctions and Revenue Recycling under Carbon Cap and Trade. Senior Fellow Dallas Burtraw testified before the House's Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on the benefits of auctioning initial emission allowances

Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions to Combat Vitamin A Deficiency. A new RFF report examines the feasibility and relative benefits of biofortified ("golden") mustard compared to other treatments for vitamin A deficiency in India.

How Much to Stabilize our Climate? A Review of Recent Estimates, Senior Fellow Billy Pizer and Rich Richels of the Electric Power Research Institute, discuss the results and implications of a recent study by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.

Finding Policies that Work Best to Ease the 'Social Cost' of Driving. In a new paper, RFF researchers evaluate a range of policies aimed at reducing traffic congestion, based on how well they address the full menu of societal damages from driving.

RFF Researchers Find Dramatic Increase in Hospitalizations Related to the Superbug MRSA. A new study by researchers at RFF in the December issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases examines the recent magnitude and trends related to staph and MRSA infections.

Finding the Right Drivers for Cleaner Cars: Controlling Automobile Air Pollution Senior Fellows Virginia McConnell and Winston Harrington have chosen 26 articles that outline the most pressing economic issues in automobile pollution: including trends in vehicle use, the complex nature of regulation and the externalities of driving.

Key Congressional Climate Change Legislation Compared in Latest RFF Document. Researchers at Resources for the Future have prepared an updated comparison of major market-based climate change proposals currently under consideration in the 110th Congress.

Valuing Reductions in Mortality Risk RFF Fellow Joe Aldy and Senior Fellow Alan Krupnick examine how the value of reducing mortality risk varies with age in a recent symposium in the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy.

Auction Design for Selling CO2 Emission Allowances Under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative RFF researchers Dallas Burtraw and Karen Palmer contribute to a new report on the design of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) CO2 emission allowance auction program.

Transfer of Development Rights in U.S. Communities Senior Fellows Margaret Walls and Virginia McConnell analyze programs from around the country to determine why some have succeeded and others have languished.

Rising to the Challenge A new report led by RFF scholars Shalini Vajjhala and Alan Krupnick offers recommendations for integrating social science into the work of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Environmental Observatories.


Resources Summer 2007: Mending Our Food Safety Net

		Should We Abandon Cap and Trade in Favor of a CO2 Tax? RFF Senior Fellow Ian W.H. Parry considers the merits and feasibility of implementing a CO2 tax, rather than using a cap-and-trade system. Mending Our Food Safety Net RFF Fellow Sandra A. Hoffmann analyzes the food safety crises of the past year and calls for significant reform based on quality management.
From Oilfields to Energy FarmsRFF Senior Fellow Roger A. Sedjoexplains the varying economic and environmental implications of different categories of biofuels.

Congestion Research Highlighted in Washington Post The July 22 issue of the Washington Post features RFF research on congestion fees in Washington, DC, and provides assessments of economic and commuter impact.
(July 27, 2007)

Key Congressional Climate Change Legislation Compared In New RFF Document Researchers at RFF have prepared a detailed comparison of major market-based climate change proposals currently under consideration in the 110th Congress.
(July 11, 2007)

Environment for Development Initiative
To improve environmental policymaking in developing countries, a new collaboration between RFF and Göteborg University in Sweden will apply rigorous economic analysis through a pathbreaking initiative, the Environment for Development (EfD) program.
(June 26, 2007)

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