2006 Features
November 2006
Energy Independence: Fantasies, Facts, and Options Instead of focusing on how the country can reduce its dependence on oil imports, RFF Senior Fellow, Joel Darmstadter, argues that it is important to look at how the United States can reduce its dependence on oil.
September 2006
RFF and the Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP) RFF Senior Fellow Ramanan Laxminarayan and Research Associate Jeffrey Chow contribute to six chapters in the 2nd Edition of Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, the flagship book of the DCPP.
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| Resources Fall 2006 |
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What's the Big Deal about Oil?: How We Can Get Oil Policy Right Senior Fellow Richard G. Newell's efforts focus on the economic analysis of incentive-based policy, technological change, and the operation of markets.
Expanding Oil Supplies Senior Fellow Joel Darmstadter has conducted research centered on energy resources and policy. His recent work addresses issues of energy security, renewable resources, and climate change. |
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Replacing Oil: Alternative Fuels and Technologies An RFF scholar for almost 30 years, Senior Fellow Raymond J. Kopp is an expert on energy issues that go beyond power generation, with a focus on climate change and the important role played by fossil fuels. He studies the environmental aspects of energy policy and technological responses to environmental issues. |
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| The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: A Short-Term Response Fellow Joseph E. Aldy conducts research that addresses questions about climate change policy, mortality-risk valuation, energy subsidies to low-income households, and energy policy. From 1997 to 2000, he served on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers, where he was responsible for an array of environmental and resources issues. |
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The Economics of Improving Fuel Economy RFF Senior Fellow William A. Pizer is widely recognized for his research into the design of policies to address climate change risks caused by manmade emissions of greenhouse gases. In addition to his work at RFF, he is a senior economist at the National Commission on Energy Policy and served as senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in 2001-2002. |
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The Case for a Pay-by-the-Barrel Oil Tax Senior fellow Ian W.H. Parry focuses primarily on environmental, transportation, tax, and public-health policies. He has studied a range of policies--including gasoline taxes, fuel-economy standards, transit subsidies, and congestion tolls--to reduce the social costs of motor vehicles. |
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July 2006
Coal within a Revised Energy Perspective Senior Fellow Joel Darmstadter ponders the consequences for coal given recent energy market upheavals.
(Appeared in EM Magazine)
June 2006
Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? 2005-06 Gilbert White Fellow Robert Weiner finds that speculators' influence on oil prices and price volatility is at best limited, suggesting policymakers should be less concerned with hedge-fund activity in oil, and instead focus on supply and demand shocks.
(Discussion Paper)
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| Resources Summer 2006 |
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Swimming Upstream
Resources interviews Senior Fellow James Sanchirico about the challenges of managing the world's fisheries.
(Resources article)
"Ground Truthing" Policy Fellow Shalini Vajjhala engages Pittsburgh residents in a series of map making studies to evaluate if and how mapping can facilitate public participation in environmental decision-making. |
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The Role of Forest Sinks in a Post-Kyoto World Senior Fellow Roger Sedjo and Masahiro Amano discuss the potential of forests as a low-cost, effective way to sequester atmospheric carbon post 2012.
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May 2006
CAFE Reforms Could Address Long-Term Oil Consumption RFF President Phil Sharp, RFF Senior Fellow Billy Pizer, and other experts testify before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. 
(Congressional Testimony)
April 2006
Developments in Nanotechnology Testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, RFF Senior Fellow J. Clarence Davies cautions that current regulatory structures are unable to manage advances in nanotechnology.
(Congressional Testimony)
RFF and the Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP) RFF Senior Fellow Ramanan Laxminarayan and Research Associate Jeffrey Chow contribute to six chapters in the 2nd Edition of Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, the flagship book of the DCPP.
(Web-only Feature)
Where Do We Put All Those Windmills? In a Denver Post guest commentary, RFF Fellow Shalini Vajjhala argues that enthusiasm for alternative energy facilities often fails to address the issue of where we put them.
(Appeared in the Denver Post)
March 2006
Do Crises Tear the Fabric of Oil Trade? Gilbert White Fellow Robert Weiner finds that the world oil market works differently during a crisis; trading itself is disrupted, and trading companies--the glue that holds the market together--play a diminished role.
(Discussion Paper)
Combating Global Warming One Car at a Time Senior Fellow Kate Probst proposes a CO2 emissions label for new motor vehicles.
(Web-only feature)
February 2006
Quantifying Siting Difficulty Fellow Shalini Vajjhala uses a case study of power lines in the U.S. to examine the difficulties associated with siting major energy facilities.
(Discussion Paper)
Not a Sure Thing: Making Regulatory Choices Under Uncertainty A new report by a team of RFF researchers, led by Senior Fellows Alan Krupnick and Richard Morgenstern, provides a case study and guidance to EPA about addressing the requirements of Circular A-4 regarding formal uncertainty analysis of regulatory proposals, and tests approaches to communicating these analyses to former EPA decisionmakers.
(RFF report)
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