Common Resources

Common Resources

• Blog Post

  Conservatives' Embrace of a Carbon Tax Requires Revisiting the Coal Impact

  Mar 28, 2017 | Joel Darmstadter
  Climate Change

  The Climate Leadership Council’s carbon tax proposal airs legitimate concerns about the global warming challenge, but a tax assessed “upstream” would effectively keep coal in the ground and stifle ongoing carbon capture and sequestration efforts.

• Blog Post

  Neither Side Gets Its Science Right in Maryland Fracking Ban Debate

  Mar 22, 2017 | Isabel Echarte, Daniel Raimi, Alan J. Krupnick
  Energy and Electricity

  Marylanders need better information in the debate over a ban on hydraulic fracturing—information that accounts for the real benefits and risks as well as the remaining uncertainties over issues including related health impacts and other concerns.

• Blog Post

  What Can States Do to Reduce GHG Emissions from the Transportation Sector? A Podcast with Virginia McConnell

  Mar 20, 2017 | Peter Nelson, Virginia McConnell
  Air Quality Climate Change Transportation

  In this podcast, RFF Senior Fellow Virginia McConnell discusses the interplay between state and federal policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles.

• Blog Post

  RFF on the Issues: Climate Resolution Backed by House Republicans

  Mar 17, 2017 | Peter Nelson
  Climate Change

  Seventeen Republican House lawmakers are backing a resolution that supports action on climate change. Despite traditional GOP hostility to the issue, the move makes political sense, according to one of the bill’s sponsors.

• Blog Post

  Learning About Earth from Space: New RFF Podcast on the Value of Data from Satellites

  Mar 13, 2017 | Peter Nelson, Yusuke Kuwayama
  Space

  In this podcast, RFF Fellow Yusuke Kuwayama talks about his research on water scarcity using data collected from satellites.

• Blog Post

  RFF on the Issues: Midterm Review of Fuel Economy Standards Still Warranted

  Mar 9, 2017 | Peter Nelson
  Transportation

  Before leaving office, the Obama administration finalized new fuel efficiency standards aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.

• Blog Post

  RFF on the Issues: Carbon Pricing versus Federal Regulations to Reduce US Emissions

  Mar 1, 2017 | Peter Nelson
  Climate Change

  The Shultz-Baker carbon tax proposal—outlining a $40 per ton tax on carbon emissions, with revenue returned to the American public—has been hotly debated since it was released in early February.

• Blog Post

  Trump’s Regulatory Task Force Executive Order: Is the Tiger Paper?

  Feb 28, 2017 | Alan J. Krupnick
  Environmental Economics Topics

  President Trump’s newest order on regulatory reform has some upsides, but may result in gridlock for agencies because of greater hurdles for issuing new regulations and likely budgetary cutbacks that will make it very difficult to meet statutory goals.

• Blog Post

  RFF on the Issues: A Risk-Based Program for Screening for Invasive Species

  Feb 23, 2017 | Peter Nelson

  Acknowledging the challenge in 2011, the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service proposed a risk-based approach for screening imports, rather than inspecting all imports essentially uniformly.

• Blog Post

  An Ounce of Prevention: New RFF Podcast on Federal Flood Expenditures

  Feb 16, 2017 | Peter Nelson, Carolyn Kousky
  Risk and Uncertainty

  In this podcast, RFF Fellow Carolyn Kousky discusses how federal government can better target its expenditures to prevent damage from floods.