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| Reliability in the Electricity Industry under New Environmental Regulations |
| In a new discussion paper, RFF researchers analyze the expected impacts of two new EPA rules aimed at reducing air pollution from the electricity sector. |
| Managing Water: Governance Innovations to Enhance Coordination |
| RFF Visiting Scholar Lynn Scarlett outlines in a new issue brief today’s main challenges for water management and describes the characteristics and potential of innovative governance systems. |
| The Variability of Potential Revenue from a Carbon Tax |
| Implementing a carbon tax in the United States could help reduce the large and growing federal budget deficit as well as emissions of carbon dioxide. A new issue brief from RFF experts helps explain what policymakers could expect in terms of revenue. |
| The Potential Role of Carbon Labeling in a Green Economy |
| A new RFF discussion paper examines how much of an impact product labeling could have on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. |
| Speculators and Oil Prices: What Do We Know and What Should We Do? |
| At a recent First Wednesday Seminar, a panel of experts examined the role of speculation in rising gas prices and discussed the ongoing process of oil market reform. Event slides and video are now available. |
| Analysis of the Bingaman Clean Energy Standard Proposal |
| In a new discussion paper, RFF experts dissect the latest federal proposal for a clean energy standard. |
| RFF Launches New Blog |
| Common Resources will provide policy-relevant insights and debates along with highlights from RFF research. |
| Green Infrastructure: Using Natural Landscapes for Flood Mitigation and Water Quality Improvements |
| At a recent First Wednesday Seminar, RFF experts explored the concept of green infrastructure and examined its potential role in flood mitigation and environmental services programs. Event video and slides are now available. |
| Unnatural Disasters? |
| Resources Magazine: Sheila Olmstead and Carolyn Kousky explain why Mother Nature isn’t the sole cause of 2011’s billion-dollar string of disasters. |
| Borrowing to Save Energy: An Assessment of Energy-Efficiency Financing Programs |
| In a new report, RFF experts explain how markets for energy-efficiency financing work and examine various government and utility financing programs in the United States, identifying gaps in knowledge and information and recommending next steps. |
| Reactions to EPA’s Proposed Power Plant Standards |
| Resident Scholar Nathan Richardson takes a quick look at EPA’s proposed performance standards for new power plants. |
| Secular Trends, Environmental Regulations, and Electricity Markets |
| RFF experts examine downward trends in natural gas prices and electricity consumption (known as secular trends), finding that these changes have a substantially bigger impact on electricity prices and the contribution of coal to electricity supply than do recent EPA regulations. |
| Measuring Conservation’s Return on Investment |
| As conservation organizations widen their goals to include human well-being, return on investment analysis is a promising tool for measuring the social and economic benefits of conservation. Jim Boyd explains in the latest edition of Resources Magazine. |
| Invasive Species: Impacts, Challenges, and Strategies for Management |
| At a recent First Wednesday Seminar, a panel of experts convened to discuss the complex ecological, economic, and policy implications of invasive species. Event video and presentations are now available. |
| Energy Efficiency Resource Standards: Comparisons and a Closer Look |
| New research from RFF experts examines energy efficiency resource standards, an increasingly popular policy approach among states to spur investment in energy efficiency measures and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. |
| Improving Fuel Economy in Heavy-Duty Vehicles |
| RFF’s Winston Harrington and Alan Krupnick examine the new federal regulations mandating improvements in fuel economy among heavy-duty commercial vehicles, noting that market-oriented approaches might work better. |
| How Carbon Neutral is Bioenergy? |
| At a recent RFF seminar, Senior Fellow and Center for Forest Economics and Policy Director Roger Sedjo discussed the issue of emissions from wood energy. Video and slides from the event are now available. |
| State Parks: Assessing Their Benefits |
| Resources: Juha Siikamäki explains why, in an era of tight budgets, state parks remain well worth their costs. |
| Carbon Policy under the Clean Air Act: Examining Tradable Standards |
| EPA faces several choices as it crafts its approach for regulating stationary-source greenhouse gas emissions. RFF experts look at one option, tradable standards, in a new discussion paper. |
| Rare Earths Markets: Implications for the U.S. Wind Energy Sector |
| In this new RFF report, experts examine some of the key economic and physical factors influencing rare earths markets, focusing on how China’s market dominance may affect the U.S. wind energy sector. |
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