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| Ecosystem Services and Government Accountability: The Need for a New Way of Judging Nature's Value |
| Senior Fellow James Boyd and Fellow Spencer Banzhaf call for the development of a rigorous system to measure ecosystem benefits. |
| Allocation of CO2 Emissions Allowances in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Program |
| RFF Researchers examine the economic consequences of different methods for allocating emissions permits under RGGI, an initiative of nine northeastern states that could eventually serve as a model for a national cap-and-trade program. |
| Flying in the Face of Uncertainty |
| Senior Fellow Molly Macauley reflects on the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery. |
| Spurring Creativity: A Role for Prizes in Climate Change? |
| In certain circumstances, with proper research and design, prizes offered by public agencies as well as private firms or foundations could induce innovations that reduce greenhouse gases. |
| Managing Problems That Won't Go Away |
| The June First Wednesday Seminar explores the pitfalls encountered when applying familiar regulatory tools to issues like Yucca Mountain, cleanup of Department of Energy nuclear production facilities, and Superfund and discusses alternative approaches to policy design. |
| Europe Goes to Market: Opportunities and Challenges with a Trail Blazing Trading System. |
| Visiting Scholar Joe Kruger and Fellow Billy Pizer review the new European Emissons Trading System based on U.S. experience. |
| Benefits of Regulating Electricity Pollution Outweigh Costs To New York, Nation |
| RFF Researchers analyze the EPA's Clean Air Interstate Rule and the Clean Air Mercury Rule, as well as variations of the policies, to determine how they compare in protecting the environment and public health of the nation in general and New York state in particular. |
| The Case For Intensity Targets |
| For at least the next two decades greenhouse gases will continue to rise. In a new discussion paper, Fellow Billy Pizer suggests it is necessary to accomodate this rise while putting into place the policies that, tightened over time, are capable of slowing the rise, then stopping it and forcing a decline. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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