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Nathan Richardson
Resident Scholar
(202)328-5054
richardson@rff.org
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PROFILE

​Nathan Richardson is an attorney and has been a researcher at RFF since 2009, specializing in environmental law and economics. His research has examined environmental liability, environmental federalism, and the relationship between law, regulatory institutions, and policy design. He has published research on law and policy related to climate change, including EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Other research areas include regulation and liability rules related to oil and gas development. Richardson is also managing editor of RFF’s environmental policy and economics blog, Common Resources.


 
Featured Publications
Comparing the Clean Air Act and a Carbon Price
Nathan Richardson, Arthur G. Fraas
RFF Discussion Paper 13-13 | May 2013
 
Forest Carbon Economics: What We Know, What We Do Not, and Whether it Matters
Molly K Macauley and Nathan Richardson
Climate Change Economics | December 2012 | Vol. 3, No.4
 
Resources Magazine: 182
Phil Sharp, James W. Boyd, Dallas Burtraw, Carolyn Fischer, Kristin Hayes, Richard D. Morgenstern, Peter Nelson, Nathan Richardson, Warren C. Robinson, Juha V. Siikamäki, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Roberton C. Williams III
Resources | 2013 (182)
 
Ensuring Competitiveness under a US Carbon Tax
Carolyn Fischer, Richard D. Morgenstern, Nathan Richardson
Resources | 2013 (182)
 
Policy Significance of EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
Nathan Richardson
Issue Brief 12-07 | November 2012
 
Climate Change Regulatory Authority beyond the Clean Air Act
Peter Anderson, Nathan Richardson
RFF Discussion Paper 12-39 | July 2012
 
Aviation, Carbon, and the Clean Air Act
Nathan Richardson
RFF Discussion Paper 12-22 | July 2012
 
Comments on EPA’s Proposed Carbon Pollution Standard for New Power Plants
Dallas Burtraw, Arthur G. Fraas, Karen L. Palmer, Nathan Richardson
RFF Discussion Paper 12-31 | July 2012
 
Tradable Standards for Clean Air Act Carbon Policy
Dallas Burtraw, Arthur G. Fraas, Nathan Richardson
RFF Discussion Paper 12-05 | February 2012
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Tradable Standards for Clean Air Act Carbon Policy
Dallas Burtraw, Art Fraas and Nathan Richardson
Environmental Law Reporter | 41:10098-10120 | Related Discussion Paper 12-05
 
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JOURNAL ARTICLES
Forest Carbon Economics: What We Know, What We Do Not, and Whether it Matters
Molly K Macauley and Nathan Richardson
Climate Change Economics | December 2012 | Vol. 3, No.4
 
Tradable Standards for Clean Air Act Carbon Policy
Dallas Burtraw, Art Fraas and Nathan Richardson
Environmental Law Reporter | 41:10098-10120 | Related Discussion Paper 12-05
 
Banking on Allowances: The EPA’s Mixed Record in Managing Emissions-Market Transitions
Arthur G. Fraas and Nathan D. Richardson
NYU Journal of Environmental Law | 2011 | forthcoming | Related Discussion Paper 10-42
 
Managing Risk through Liability, Regulation, and Innovation: Organizational Design for Spill Containment in Deepwater Drilling Operations
Nathan D. Richardson, Molly K. Macauley, Mark A. Cohen, Robert Anderson, and Adam Stern
Risk, Hazards, and Crisis in Public Policy | 2011 | Vol. 2, No. 2 | Related Discussion Paper 10-63
 
Seeing the Forests and the Trees: Technological and Regulatory Impediments for Global Carbon Monitoring
Molly K. Macauley and Nathan Richardson
Berkeley Technology Law Journal | Forthcoming
 
Greenhouse Gas Regulation under the Clean Air Act:A Guide for Economists
Dallas Burtraw, Arthur G. Fraas and Nathan Richardson
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy | 2011 | Vol. 5, No. 2 | pp. 293-313 | Related Discussion Paper 11-08
 
Deepwater Drilling: Law, Policy, and Economics of Firm Organization and Safety
Mark A. Cohen, Madeline Gottlieb, Joshua Linn, and Nathan Richardson
Vanderbilt Law Review | forthcoming | Related Discussion Paper 10-65
 
Greenhouse Gas Regulation Under the Clean Air Act: Structure, Effects, and Implications of a Knowable Pathway
Nathan Richardson, Art Fraas, and Dallas Burtraw
The Environmental Law Reporter: News and Analysis | February 2011 | Vol. 41, No. 2 | pp. 10098-10120 | Related Discussion Paper 10-23
 
Greenhouse Gas Regulation under the Clean Air Act: Structure, Effects, and Implications of a Knowable Pathway
Nathan Richardson and Dallas Burtraw
Environmental Law Reporter | 2011 | Vol. 41 | pp. 10098-10120
 
International Greenhouse Gas Offsets Under the Clean Air Act
Nathan Richardson
Environmental Law Reporter News and Analysis | September 2010 | Vol. 40, No. 9. | pp. 10887-10893 | Related Discussion Paper 10-24
 
Greenhouse Gas Regulation Under the Clean Air Act: Does Chevron Set the EPA Free?
Nathan Richardson
Stanford Environmental Law Journal | May 2010 | Vol. 29, No. 2 | pp. 283-322 | Related Discussion Paper 09-50
 
Breaking Up Doesn't Have to Be So Hard: Default Rules for Partition and Secession
Nathan D. Richardson
Chicago Journal of International Law | Winter 2009 | 9 Chi. J. Int'l. L. 685
 
  
NEWS
Too much, or not enough?
Monday, January 14, 2013
High Country News
How Do California's Fracking Regulations Compare to Other States'?
Friday, December 14, 2012
KQED Science
How much can the EPA cut carbon? It depends on the courts.
Friday, December 07, 2012
The Washington Post
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