Air Quality
Many human activities result in air pollution, which negatively impacts human health, the environment, and economic efficiency. RFF experts have been analyzing policies to monitor and improve air quality since such regulations first came to pass.
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Report — Mar 18, 2024
Prioritizing Justice in New York State Cap-Trade-and-Invest
This report, produced in partnership with RFF and the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, analyzes the emissions effects of different cap-trade-and-invest policy designs in New York State.
Resources Magazine — Oct 4, 2023
Prioritizing Justice in New York State Climate Policy: Aiming for Cleaner Air in Disadvantaged Communities
Climate policy aims to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, but another important outcome from decarbonization is improved air quality. New research asks the question: Will disadvantaged communities see benefits?
Resources Magazine — Oct 4, 2023
Environmental Justice and the Cumulative Impacts of Pollution
Ana Baptista and Margaret Walls discuss the cumulative impacts of pollution on environmental justice communities and the groundbreaking legislation and data tools that are being employed to mitigate cumulative impacts in overburdened communities.
Resources Magazine — Oct 4, 2023
Supporter Spotlight: Creating Policy with Good Thinking and Social Stakeholders
In this Supporter Spotlight feature, Dallas Burtraw talks about the importance of global climate coordination, speaking the language of policymakers, the value of flexible funds for researchers, and more.
Report — Mar 18, 2024
Prioritizing Justice in New York State Cap-Trade-and-Invest
This report, produced in partnership with RFF and the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, analyzes the emissions effects of different cap-trade-and-invest policy designs in New York State.
Report — Sep 13, 2023
Prioritizing Justice in New York State Climate Policy: Cleaner Air for Disadvantaged Communities?
This report, produced in partnership with the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, examines air quality improvements in two options for implementing New York State's Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.
Journal Article — Aug 31, 2022
US Clean Energy Futures—Air Quality Benefits of Zero Carbon Energy Policies
US Clean Energy Futures—Air Quality Benefits of Zero Carbon Energy Policies
Journal Article — Mar 15, 2022
Looking Back at 50 Years of the Clean Air Act
An article coauthored by several RFF scholars in the Journal of Economic Literature looks back at the contributions of the Clean Air Act to the vast air quality improvements seen since 1970.
RFF Live — May 19, 2023
Unplugging Emissions: Exploring New EPA Rules on Climate and Health
An RFF Live event examining three recent proposed and final rules on power-sector emissions from the US Environmental Protection Agency.
RFF Live — Mar 22, 2022
Climate Change and the Supreme Court
Examining US court cases that will play a large role in determining the future of US climate policy and environmental regulation
Policy Leadership Series — Aug 30, 2021
Policy Leadership Series with EPA Administrator Michael Regan
A conversation with the 16th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency about the goals he has set during his first year as the head of the agency
Speech/Presentation — Jan 5, 2021
Wildfires, Smoke, and Outdoor Recreation in the Western United States
Wildfires, Smoke, and Outdoor Recreation in the Western United States
Resources Magazine — Oct 4, 2023
Prioritizing Justice in New York State Climate Policy: Aiming for Cleaner Air in Disadvantaged Communities
Climate policy aims to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, but another important outcome from decarbonization is improved air quality. New research asks the question: Will disadvantaged communities see benefits?
Resources Magazine — Oct 4, 2023
Environmental Justice and the Cumulative Impacts of Pollution
Ana Baptista and Margaret Walls discuss the cumulative impacts of pollution on environmental justice communities and the groundbreaking legislation and data tools that are being employed to mitigate cumulative impacts in overburdened communities.
Resources Magazine — Oct 4, 2023
Supporter Spotlight: Creating Policy with Good Thinking and Social Stakeholders
In this Supporter Spotlight feature, Dallas Burtraw talks about the importance of global climate coordination, speaking the language of policymakers, the value of flexible funds for researchers, and more.
Resources Radio — Aug 22, 2023
Measuring the Long-Term Health Effects of Air Pollution, with Tatyana Deryugina
Tatyana Deryugina discusses the short- and long-term health effects of air-pollution exposure for different groups and how to measure those effects.
Media Highlight — Sep 13, 2023
POLITICO: “Research Examines Community-Level Air Quality Improvements from Aggressive Climate Policies”
An article in POLITICO breaks down the findings of a new RFF report on the environmental justice implications of a new New York State climate law.
Media Highlight — Jul 29, 2023
Palabra: "Youth-Powered Science"
An article about research in New York City schools mentions a project co-led by RFF Fellow Beia Spiller, which involves New York students with air quality monitoring projects.
Media Highlight — Jan 27, 2023
Bloomberg: "Air and Climate Standards Top EPA's 2023 Rulemaking To-Do List"
Comments made by EPA Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe during RFF's Big Decisions 2023 event in January feature heavily in a story about EPA priorities.
Media Highlight — Feb 7, 2022
Report Sees Big Health Benefits of 2030 Greenhouse Gas Target, Despite Murky Path
A story in InsideEPA details the findings of a new report about the health benefits of reduced PM2.5 pollution in the United States.