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Blog Post
May 22, 2015
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Peter Nelson
This weekend, local, state, and national parks around the country are opening their beaches, offering discounted admission, and providing a host of special programs to attract the thousands of people looking to head outside for Memorial Day weekend. Of course, they’re also hoping to attract the associated revenue, as many parks attempt to address funding issues in the face of continuing budget cuts.
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Resources Article
May 13, 2015
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Alan J. Krupnick, Nathan Richardson, Joel Darmstadter, Katrina McLaughlin |
2 pp.
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Blog Post
Apr 22, 2015
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Margaret A. Walls
Typical Earth Day stories focus on the achievements of our country’s two signature environmental laws, the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. But today, I’d like to give some love to the 50-year-old Land and Water Conservation Fund Act, which expires at the end of September unless Congress reauthorizes it.
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Blog Post
Mar 31, 2015
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Alan J. Krupnick
In new research (described in an earlier blog post), we lay out a legal argument for how the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) might implement a carbon pricing policy, based on the social cost of carbon, on coal extraction on federal lands (with RFF coauthors Joel Darmstadter, Nathan Richardson, also of the University of South Carolina School of Law, and Katrina McLaughlin). As we mentioned previously, BLM has a mandate to manage public land in a way that provides for multiple uses.
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Blog Post
Mar 4, 2015
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Alan J. Krupnick
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper deserves some credit for creating the state’s Oil and Gas Task Force as a means of reducing the heat around the November ballot. In an effort to cool tensions among Colorado’s oil and gas industry, some local governments, and citizen groups, and as part of a deal to create the task force, a handful of controversial initiatives were withdrawn.
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Blog Post
Feb 12, 2015
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Alan J. Krupnick, Katrina McLaughlin
The landscape in the Arctic is changing, and in more ways than just ice cover. Over the last month, the Obama administration has made a number of significant announcements on Arctic policy.
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Journal Article
Feb 1, 2015
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Margaret A. Walls, Carolyn Kousky, Ziyan (Jessica) Chu |
pp. 1-19
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Journal Article
Jan 1, 2015
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Rebecca Epanchin-Niell, James E. Wilen |
pp. 180-198
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Working Paper
Dec 23, 2014
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Mintewab Bezabih Ayele, Andrea Mannberg, Eyerusalem Siba |
44 pp.
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Blog Post
Nov 24, 2014
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Margaret A. Walls
If you’re a fan of crime fiction with a dash of humor, you might have read some of Carl Hiaasen’s books—Skinny Dip, Nature Girl, Paradise Screwed, to name three. If so, you’ve probably noticed Hiaasen’s love of nature, specifically the wild and woolly swamps and back woods of south Florida.