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| Wholesale Electricity Markets and Policy: An Overview |
| Senior Fellow Tim Brennan outlines twists, turns, and bumps on the road to competition in electricity |
| Regulating the Electricity Markets: Time to Reconsider? |
| Peter VanDoren, editor of Regulation magazine, speaks at the April RFF First Wednesday Seminar. |
| Alaska to the Rescue? |
| ANWR and other reflections on U.S. oil import dependence by Senior Fellows Joel Darmstadter and Ian Parry |
| Oil Independence Will Not Eliminate Vulnerability |
| RFF President and Senior Fellow Paul Portney testifies that global oil prices remain primary concern. |
| Needed: A Parallel Approach on Climate Policy |
| Senior Fellow Richard Newell suggests that emission-based climate policy, such as the Kyoto Protocol, should be complemented by a strategy focused on research, development and implementation of climate-friendly technologies. |
| Despite Potential for Emissions Reductions, Challenges Confront Telecommuting Programs |
| RFF Scholars find cleaner cars and insufficient participation limit the environmental benefits from current programs. |
| Estimating the Cost of Institutional Controls |
| Senior Fellow Kate Probst and John Pendergrass of the Environmental Law Institute have developed a framework that can be used to plan for the types of activities and associated costs required to successfully implement institutional controls at contaminated sites. |
| On Wednesday, February 9, Preston Chiaro, chief executive of the Rio Tinto Energy Group, will present the 2005 Hans Landsberg Memorial Lecture. |
| Chiaro will lead a discussion on global energy and environmental issues related to mining development in the future. |
| Sudden Catastrophic Change: Costing Out The Challenges of Preparing for the Worst |
| Judge Richard A. Posner, author of Overcoming Law and Catastrophe: Risk and Response, speaks at the March RFF First Wednesday Seminar. |
| The Value of Open Space |
| RFF Scholars Virginia McConnell and Margaret Walls review ways to estimate the monetary value to community households of urban parks, wetlands, farms, and forests, based on surveys and property value studies. |
| Tending the Fields: State & Federal Roles In the Oversight of Genetically Modified Crops |
| In a new report, released by the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology, RFF Researchers Michael Taylor, Jody Tick and Diane Sherman examine the issues that states are confronting in the oversight of biotech crops and foods. |
| So Kyoto Is Going Into Effect - How Do We Make It Work? |
| In a web commentary in advance of the COP 10 meeting in Buenos Aires, Senior Fellow Ray Kopp asserts that protocol compliance must be mandatory and backed by specific incentive-based regulatory policies. |
| Near-Term Greenhouse |
| A new Discussion Paper by Senior Fellow Ray Kopp suggests feasible ways for the U.S. to curb climate-warming gases over time. Such actions could produce global benefits without severe consequences to the economy. |
| Autos, Energy, and the Environment: Challenges for the 21st Century |
| Threats to the future of the American auto industry confront technological experts, auto and fuel industry leaders, and environmental advocates at this conference held by RFF and the NYU Leonard N. Stern School of Business. |
| Global Compensation for Oil Pollution Damages |
| Senior Fellow James Boyd outlines why certain provisions of this act should be emulated by other countries. |
| Valuation of Natural Resource Improvements in the Adirondacks |
| New York residents are willing to support measures to enhance and maintain the ecosystem of the Adirondack Mountains at a high level of quality, according to an RFF Report that surveyed households across the state. |
| Energy and Population |
| Senior Fellow Joel Darmstadter discusses the relationship between energy consumption and population growth in a new Issue Brief. The interplay between the two is much more complex than commonly assumed.
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| Winning the Oil Endgame |
| Amory B. Lovins, CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute, will speak at the RFF Policy Leadership Forum Tuesday, September 21, at 11 a.m. |
| Oil Prices Keep Swinging: The Search For Stability |
| Consumers and politicians complain bitterly when oil prices bounce upward, but the remedies all seem to lie decades in the future. |
| A Congressional Perspective on Energy and Environment Policy |
| Representative Mark Udall of Colorado to speak at the RFF Policy Leadership Forum |
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