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| 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. |
| Addressing the Mercury Problem: Global Challenge, Local Impact? |
| Alongside carbon dioxide, NOX, and SO2, mercury is the fourth key target pollutant of coal-burning electrical power plants that might be subject to regulation pending the outcome of current congressional debate. |
| Securing Our Future: The Economics and Ecology of Coal. |
| James Rogers, Chairman and CEO of Cinergy, speaks at the RFF Policy Leadership Forum on May 18. |
| Cutting Carbon Emissions: What's the Most Efficient Approach? |
| Some of the most popular ways for supporting renewable energy are the least efficient at reducing carbon dioxide emissions, RFF Fellows Carolyn Fischer and Richard Newell conclude. The most efficient way is also the least popular, setting out a dilemma for policymakers.
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| Curbing Traffic Deaths in Developing Nations |
| Research Assistant Elizabeth Kopits and University Fellow Maureen Cropper contribute significantly to a new WHO/World Bank Report. |
| Improving Air Quality in China. |
| A multi-year effort to develop a cap-and-trade system in a large Chinese industrial city has set the stage for dramatic reductions in levels of air pollution caused by coal burning. |
| Look beyond fuel taxes |
| Fuel taxes are one approach to addressing U.S. energy and transportation problems, but there are far better approaches. Senior Fellow Ian Parry promotes alternatives such as congestion pricing, pay-as-you-go insurance, and fees on diesel-fueled trucks.
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| Corporate Social Responsibility |
| Should corporations go beyond legal requirements to give back to their communities? Hear RFF President Paul Portney's RFF Seminar and see industry and academic leader's discussion at a RFF Council Meeting.
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| A few cents more for a cup of coffee could help preserve the world's biodiversity |
| RFF Researchers focus on Mexican shade-grown coffee as they develop strategies to prevent deforestation in ecologically sensitive zones. |
| Pricing Irrigation Water: Principles and Cases from Developing Countries |
| A new RFF Press book looks at pricing models in light of farm-level demand as well as a wide range of household and macroeconomic factors. |
| How Should Policymakers Respond to Growing U.S. Oil Import Dependence? |
| In this election year, politicians on both sides are claiming to have ready answers about how to deal with growing U.S. dependence on foreign oil. RFF Senior Fellows Joel Darmstadter and Ian Parry explain why the problem is a lot more complicated than that in a new feature.
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| American Patent Policy, Biotechnology, and African Agriculture: The Case for Policy Change |
| Senior Fellow Michael Taylor and Jerry Cayford suggest changes that could help African farmers gain access to new technologies without undercutting the patent system. |
| to the Hans Landsberg Memorial Lecture |
| "Energy and Economics - Questions for the Future" |
| "The politics of American food safety" |
| The USDA was given a political blank check to impose new controls on the beef industry, after one domestic case of mad cow disease was discovered. |
| The Energy Journal: Special Issue in Honor of Hans Landsberg and Sam Schurr |
| RFF scholars Sam H. Schurr and Hans H. Landsberg are considered pioneers in energy economics. These men are honored by a special issue of The Energy Journal devoted to their research.
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| Criticism of the administration's mercury proposal should not confuse the policy tool, emission trading, with the environmental target |
| Senior Fellows Dallas Burtraw and Alan Krupnick comment on the Bush's Administration's proposed changes to the Clean Air Act. |
| The Future of Natural Gas Markets |
| Now that the U.S. has experienced high natural gas prices, the quiet world of federal natural gas policy has become a lot noisier. At a recent RFF forum, National Petroleum Council and Stanford Energy Modeling Forum representatives present their views on what lies ahead. Read RFF's J.W. Anderson on the day's events and watch the conference video.
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| A new report on U.S. patent policy and African agriculture |
| Senior Fellow Michael Taylor and Jerry Cayford suggest changes that could help African farmers gain access to new technologies without undercutting the patent system. |
| Facing Challenges: the Environmental Protection Agency |
| RFF President and Senior Fellow Paul Portney comments on the issues faced by EPA following the resignation of EPA Administrator Christie Whitman.
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| Food Safety Research Consortium |
| RFF and other leading research institutions begin their efforts to develop tools for a more science- and risk-based food safety system.
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