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| Resources Magazine: Ensuring Competitiveness under a US Carbon Tax |
| Tax exemptions, industry rebates, and border tax adjustments can help protect the competitiveness of industries affected by a carbon tax, but they are not equally efficient at achieving economic and environmental goals. In the latest issue of Resources, RFF scholars Carolyn Fischer, Richard Morgenstern, and Nathan Richardson examine the issues. |
| Policy Options for Addressing Carbon Tax Impacts to Households |
| Carbon pricing remains the strongest option for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating climate change. But such a policy still faces serious political hurdles in part because of the perception that a carbon tax would most negatively impact the poor. Clayton Munnings and Daniel Morris address the potential of a carbon tax to actually be progressive in a new RFF issue brief. |
| US Shale Gas Development in Review |
| The United States has seen rapid recent development of shale gas. What are the factors behind the notable growth in the past decade? And what does it mean for shale gas development elsewhere in the world? RFF scholars Alan Krupnick and Zhongmin Wang examine the history of the US shale gas boom in a new RFF discussion paper. |
| Mercury and Air Toxics Standards Analysis Deconstructed: Changing Assumptions, Changing Results |
| EPA regulations on mercury and other air pollutants currently under review are the subject of much debate for their potential costs and impacts on the electricity industry. In a new discussion paper, a team of RFF experts examines the assumptions behind several studies that have analyzed the potential effects of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, finding that the impacts may be less rigid and less uncertain than suggested by some models. |
| Aligning Carbon Markets: The Case of California and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative |
| Incrementally aligning policies in distinct carbon markets—linking by degrees—can allow programs to experience immediate benefits of sharing best practices in program design. A team of experts from RFF and Yale have examined the details and prospects for the cap-and-trade programs in California and the Northeast in this new feature. |
| Thinking Like an Economist Within the Complex Climate Policy Regime |
| Building on recent work that highlights the need to account for institutions in crafting economic solutions to environmental problems, RFF scholars Matt Woerman and Dallas Burtraw look specifically to the implementation of climate policy—and how incentive-based thinking can help. |
| Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment |
| Video is now available for RFF’s recent seminar “Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment: Perspectives on the Next 10 Years,” part of the Resources 2020 series. Hear panelists discuss the widespread use of genetically modified (GM) crops and the regulatory debate over the labeling of GM foods. |
| Policy Insights for Narrowing the Energy Efficiency Gap |
| A new RFF discussion paper explores the “energy efficiency gap” and what it means for policy by bringing in the latest insights from behavioral economics. |
| What the Experts Say about the Environmental Risks of Shale Gas Development |
| A new RFF report highlights a high degree of consensus among experts from government, industry, academia, and nongovernmental organizations about the key risks associated with shale gas production and development. |
| The Past, Present, and Future of Carbon Markets |
| New research explores lessons learned to date from carbon markets around the world and presents new issues to be examined in the future, such as the linking of existing markets. |
| Answering Questions about a Carbon Tax: How New Natural Gas Supplies Impact the Electricity Sector |
| Resources magazine: This infographic illustrates the potential revenue of a carbon tax and looks at the role natural gas plays in electricity generation. |
| Will Natural Gas Vehicles Be in Our Future? |
| Resources magazine: RFF Senior Fellow Alan Krupnick considers whether natural gas in the transportation sector will extend beyond heavy-duty vehicles in the United States. |
| Policy Options for Encouraging Home Energy Efficiency Improvements |
| New research by RFF’s Margaret Walls identifies the tradeoffs associated with choosing among loans, subsidies, and standards as policies to encourage energy efficiency improvements in homes. |
| High-Speed Rail Passions |
| Resources magazine: Will California’s proposed train system linking San Francisco and Los Angeles set the course for high-speed rail development across the country? RFF Senior Fellow Joel Darmstadter investigates. |
| Clean Air Regulations and the Electricity Sector |
| Resources magazine: RFF experts weigh the potential effects of historic air pollution regulations compared to those of cheap natural gas and falling demand on electricity prices and the generation mix. |
| The Coming US Carbon Market: Planning for Ex Post Analysis |
| RFF experts have developed several background memos on cap-and-trade and carbon tax systems to provide informative overviews and highlight current work, available data, and potential research limitations. |
| US Energy Policy: A Changing Landscape |
| As Congress gears up to overhaul the tax code, RFF President Phil Sharp examines developments reshaping today’s energy markets and assesses whether federal incentives are cost-effectively achieving the intended results. |
| Protecting Coastal Environments to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions |
| Preventing the release of “blue carbon” stored in mangroves, sea grasses, and salt marshes may be an effective way to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. A new RFF report details the possibilities. |
| Have Questions About a Carbon Tax? |
| You can find answers at RFF's carbon tax FAQs, developed by the Center for Climate and Electricity Policy. |
| Does Eco-Certification Pay? Costa Rica’s Blue Flag Program |
| RFF Senior Fellow Allen Blackman and his colleagues present some of the first evidence that eco-certification programs in developing countries can have positive impacts for both the economy and environment. |
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