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| Impact of MD Joining Greenhouse Gas Pact |
| RFF researchers Karen Palmer and Dallas Burtraw collaborate on a study headed by the University of Maryland's Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER). |
| Budgeting for Metro: A better approach |
| RFF researcher Elena Safirova comments in the Washington Business Journal about the potential unintended and unpleasant consequences of proposed Metro fare hikes. |
| RFF President Briefs Senate Agriculture Committee on Energy, Oil Dependency |
| RFF President Phil Sharp testifies that strong, persistent policies are needed to ensure that benefits from research and technological developments in the field of energy are realized. |
| RFF Scholars Awarded Prize for Economics of Climate Change |
| Richard Newell and William Pizer have been awarded the Petry Research Prize for the Economics of Climate Change by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. |
| Genetically Engineered Trees: Promise and Concerns |
| Transgenic trees offer potential solutions to a number of forestry problems, yet the regulatory history for these trees in the United States is very short, explains senior fellow Roger Sedjo in a new RFF Report. |
| Energy Independence: Fantasies, Facts, Options |
| Although energy independence has long been a political rallying cry, Senior Fellow Joel Darmstadter argues that independence from oil -- foreign or domestic -- is the more viable policy goal.
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| Energy Independence won't happen any time soon. |
| The short-term fixes won't make much difference in the way the world oil market works. Policies that could make a real difference have lead times measured in decades. |
| Gas Pumps and Voting Booths |
| The October First Wednesday Seminar explores energy and environment in the midterm elections. |
| 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. |
| Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? |
| 2005-06 Gilbert White Fellow Robert Weiner finds that speculators' influence on oil prices and price volatility is at best limited, suggesting policymakers should be less concerned with hedge-fund activity in oil, and instead focus on supply and demand shocks. |
| Bite the Barrel |
| Visiting Scholar Heather L. Ross proposes an "Oil Freedom Fund" to advance energy security by taxing domestic oil production to develop new oil-saving technologies. |
| The Role of Forest Sinks in a Post-Kyoto World |
| Senior Fellow Roger Sedjo and Masahiro Amano discuss the potential of forests as a low-cost, effective way to sequester atmospheric carbon post 2012. |
| Swimming Upstream |
| Resources interviews Senior Fellow James Sanchirico about the challenges of managing the world's fisheries. |
| Energy Policy in the Modern Era: Tough Challenges Lie Ahead |
| In this Resources special report, RFF researchers examine the key energy options and assess how each stacks up in availability, environmental and technological considerations, international security, and cost projections. |
| Generating Electricity in a Carbon-Constrained World |
| At an RFF Policy Leadership Forum, Steve Specker, President and CEO of the Electric Power Research Institute, discusses electricity-generation technologies and investment decisions in light of ongoing efforts to curb emissions of greenhouse gases. |
| To Avoid Doing More Harm Than Good, Land Trusts Must Consider Market Forces |
| RFF Fellow Jim Sanchirico shows that an understanding of local land markets is critical to effective biodiversity conservation in an article co-authored with a group of ecologists appearing in the Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. |
| The Debate Over CAFE |
| RFF senior fellow and president Paul Portney discusses automotive fuel economy policy on E&ETV News. |
| Post-Katrina: Getting the Incentives and Priorities Right |
| Senior Fellow Kate Probst and Journalist-in-Residence J.W. Anderson argue that we need to rethink the Federal response to Katrina to make sure the right questions get asked, and the right decisions are made. |
| From SO2 to Greenhouse Gases: Trends and Events Shaping Future Emissions Trading Programs in the U.S. |
| Visiting Scholar Joseph Kruger examines the differences between the existing American program to control sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions and proposed greenhouse gas trading programs that use it as a model. |
| Taking Risks on the Space Frontier |
| In the new issue of Resources, Senior Fellow Molly Macauley explores how human risk in space activities should be approached and managed. |
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