Common Resources

Common Resources

• Blog Post

  Calculating Various Fuel Prices under a Carbon Tax

  Nov 28, 2017 | Marc Hafstead, Paul Picciano
  Climate Change Energy and Electricity

  A new fuel price calculator estimates the impacts of a US carbon tax on the prices of various types of fossil fuels.

• Blog Post

  Monetizing Global Pollution Impacts for The Lancet’s New Report

  Oct 20, 2017 | Maureen L. Cropper, Alan J. Krupnick
  Air Quality

  A new report from The Lancet finds that the global burden of pollution on human health is much larger than commonly believed.

• Blog Post

  Informing Transparency in the Paris Agreement: The Role of Economic Analyses

  Oct 19, 2017 | Brian P. Flannery
  Climate Change

  Economic analyses by non-state actors will be essential to understand progress under the Paris Agreement.

• Blog Post

  Economic Reregulation, Environmental Deregulation, and the Future of US Coal-Fired Generation

  Oct 17, 2017 | Karen L. Palmer
  Climate Change Energy and Electricity

  New regulatory proposals for carbon and US electricity markets present options for system-wide thinking in the sector.

• Blog Post

  DOE’s Grid Resiliency Pricing Rule: Does It Address Market Failures?

  Oct 16, 2017 | Timothy J. Brennan
  Energy and Electricity

  Inability to rely on energy-only markets need not mean that DOE must specify resources to address intermittency.

• Blog Post

  Big Steps, High Stakes: Preparing to Trade Carbon Dioxide in China

  Oct 16, 2017 | Larry Goulder, Valerie J. Karplus, Richard D. Morgenstern
  Climate Change International

  China's emissions trading system may be a potential model for achieving CO2 reductions in a developing country.

• Blog Post

  Climate Change and the "Confidence Trap": A Podcast with Roger Cooke

  Oct 14, 2017 | Peter Nelson, Roger M. Cooke
  Climate Change Risk and Uncertainty

  RFF Senior Fellow Roger Cooke discusses the "confidence trap" and how it distorts the debate about how to respond to the threat of climate change. 

• Blog Post

  Hazy Treatment of Health Benefits: The Case of the Clean Power Plan

  Oct 13, 2017 | Alan J. Krupnick, Amelia Keyes
  Climate Change

  The Trump administration’s move to repeal the Clean Power Plan does not appropriately consider health benefits.

• Blog Post

  Muddying the Waters of the United States: Trump Administration Takes Aim at EPA Rule

  Oct 11, 2017 | Alan J. Krupnick, Justine Huetteman
  Ecosystems Water

  The Trump administration’s new analysis of the WOTUS rule shortchanges ecological benefits.

• Blog Post

  Casey Wichman on Global versus Domestic Benefits in Assessing US Climate Action

  Oct 11, 2017 | Peter Nelson
  Climate Change

  Reconciling domestic and global estimates of the social cost of carbon will be a necessary challenge, especially to the extent that other countries look to the United States for climate leadership.