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PROFILE |
Heather Ross's research at RFF has focused on regulatory reform, energy policy, and climate change. She brings to this work a background in government, industry, and public policy analysis.
Her government service includes appointments as senior economist of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget, deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, and special assistant to the President for economic policy. She worked for ten years in the international oil industry, including positions as vice-president of BP America and assistant director of BP Europe. Her earliest employment was in think tanks, as a thesis-writing fellow at the Brookings Institution and a senior research associate at the Urban Institute.
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| Featured Publications | | Resources Magazine | | Joseph E. Aldy, John W. Anderson, Lynann Butkiewicz, Mark A Cohen, Roger M. Cooke, Arthur G. Fraas, Madeline Gottlieb, Kristin Hayes, Carolyn Kousky, Joshua Linn, Molly K. Macauley, Richard D. Morgenstern, Daniel F. Morris, Timothy Murphy, Nigel Purvis, Leslie Richardson, Nathan Richardson, Heather L. Ross, P. Lynn Scarlett, Adam Stern, Andrew R Stevenson | | Resources | Winter/Spring 2011 (177) | | | | Precursor Analysis for Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling: From Prescriptive to Risk-Informed Regulation | | Roger M. Cooke, Heather L. Ross, Adam Stern | | RFF Discussion Paper 10-61 | January 2011 | | | | Getting Off Oil | | Heather L. Ross | | Resources | Winter 2007 (164) | | | | Producing Oil or Reducing Oil: Which is Better for U.S. Energy Security? | | Heather L. Ross | | Resources | Summer 2002 (148) | | | | Clean Air - Is the Sky the Limit? | | Heather L. Ross | | Resources | Spring 2001 (143) | | | | The Search for an Intelligible Principle: Setting Air Quality Standards under the Clean Air Act | | Heather L. Ross | | RFF Issue Brief | October 2000 | | | | How Will Congress Review Rulemaking? New Power Could Improve Regulations | | Heather L. Ross | | Resources | Winter 1997 (126) | | | | An Energy Model for the Future Europe | | Heather L. Ross and Peter Ludlow | | London Financial Times | October 24, 1990 | | | | Time of Transition: The Growth of Families Headed by Women | | Heather L. Ross and Isabel V. Sawhill | | Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute | 1975 | | | | Testing Experimentation: Income Maintenance and Social Policy | | Heather L. Ross | | Social Experiments and Social Program Evaluation | James G. Abert, ed. | Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company | 1974 | | | | View All Related Publications |
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DISCUSSION PAPERS | | Precursor Analysis for Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling: From Prescriptive to Risk-Informed Regulation | | Roger M. Cooke, Heather L. Ross, Adam Stern | | RFF Discussion Paper 10-61 | January 2011 | Abstract: The Oil Spill Commission’s chartered mission—to “develop options to guard against … any oil spills associated with offshore drilling in the future” (National Commission 2010)—presents a major challenge: how to reduce the risk of low-frequency oil spill events, and especially high-consequence events like the Deepwater Horizon accident, when historical experience contains few oil spills of material scale and none approaching the significance of the Deepwater Horizon. In this paper, we consider precursor analysis as an answer to this challenge, addressing first its development and use in nuclear reactor regulation and then its applicability to offshore oil and gas drilling. We find that the nature of offshore drilling risks, the operating information obtainable by the regulator, and the learning curve provided by 30 years of nuclear experience make precursor analysis a promising option available to theU.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) to bring costeffective, risk-informed oversight to bear on the threat of catastrophic oil spills. | | | |
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