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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Finding Policies that Work Best to Ease '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. |
| Getting Off Oil |
| Visiting Scholar Heather L. Ross proposes using funds generated by the oil industry to correct severe under-investment in new oil-saving technology. |
| Managing Fish Portfolios |
| Senior Fellow James N. Sanchirico and colleagues Martin D. Smith and Douglas Lipton explore how financial portfolio techniques can be used to manage a suite of species within an ecosystem. |
| 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. |
| RFF Researchers Find Dramatic Increase in Hospitalizations Related to 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. |
| Taking up the Slack |
| David Evans and Joseph Kruger discuss how the unexpected results of the Chicago volatile organic emissions cap-and-trade program can inform future emissions-trading efforts. |
| Global Compensation for Oil Pollution Damages |
| Senior Fellow James Boyd outlines why certain provisions of this act should be emulated by other countries. |
| RFF Launches Major Climate Change Adaptation Initiative |
| RFF begins a multi-year investigation into how the United States can develop climate change adaptation policies. |
| 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. |
| Uncertainty Modeling in Dose Response: Dealing with Simple Bioassay Data, and Where Do We Go from Here? |
| Senior Fellow Roger Cooke hosts Uncertainty Modeling in Dose Response workshop. |
| RFF Researchers Share in 2007 Nobel Peace Prize |
| Several RFF researchers have contributed to the work of the co-recipient of this year's Peace Prize, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. |
| RGGI Auction Design |
| An addendum to the report "Auction Design for Selling CO2 Emissions and Allowances Under the Greenhouse Gas Initiative" contains new findings and reactions to submitted comments. |
| 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. |
| Strategies for Post-Kyoto Climate Policy |
| RFF Fellow Joe Aldy and Board Member Robert Stavins debut a new book examining future international climate policy strategies and host a discussion on current climate policy negotiations. |
| Reconsidering "Conservation Reconsidered" |
| RFF honors John V. Krutilla, a pioneer in the field of resource economics, and discusses his continuing impact on the evolution of environmental public policy. |
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