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December 2001

New Report on Discounting the Benefits of Future Climate Change Mitigation
How can we compare the costs of greenhouse gas reduction measures taken today with the future benefits of these actions? This new report challenges conventional wisdom and concludes that immediate action to address global climate change could yield significantly greater benefits in the long-run than conventional economic models suggest. (December 20, 2001)


November 2001

Time to Get Serious on Global Hunger (op-ed by RFF Senior Fellow Michael R. Taylor)
A piece on food security titled, "Time to Get Serious on Global Hunger" by Michael R. Taylor has been published in newspapers around the country. (November 1, 2001)


October 2001

Auction of Emission Allowances Would Dramatically Reduce the Cost of the Carbon Reductions
RFF for the Record: The success of the sulfur dioxide emission-allowance trading program provides a justification for a cap-and-trade approach to limit emissions of carbon and other pollutants from electricity generators. (October 2, 2001)


September 2001

UCB Press release — UC, Berkeley and RFF Research Team Document the Health Impacts of Pollution
University of California, Berkeley, and Resources for the Future (RFF) research team document health impacts of pollution from indoor cooking, an important cause of illness worldwide. (Final paper now published in The Lancet.) (September 21, 2001)

Fulfilling the Promise on Global Hunger
An op-ed by RFF Senior Fellow Michael R. Taylor. (September 17, 2001)

Year-Round NO_x Reductions Would Yield Millions in Societal Benefits
As compared to the current seasonal approach, year-round reductions would yield millions in societal benefits.(September 4, 2001)


August 2001

UCB Press release — UC, Berkeley and RFF Research Team Document the Health Impacts of Pollution (draft) Team documents the health impacts of pollution from indoor cooking, an important cause of illness worldwide.(August 24, 2001)


July 2001

RFF Experts on Climate Change Available for Comment on Bonn Conference
RFF can offer these scholars to comment on climate change and the Bonn negotiations. (July 17, 2001)

No "Ramp-down" Ahead in the Cost of Running Superfund
Twenty years spent cleaning up many of the U.S.'s most contaminated areas — and still more work ahead for the EPA, Congress told in new independent study. Costs will not decline for at least five years — and then only marginally. (July 10, 2001)


May 2001

$4 Million Given to Establish First Endowed Chairs
RFF has established two endowed chairs based on gifts from Thomas J. Klutznick and the Linda and Ken Lay Family Foundation. Each of the $2 million contributions is unrestricted and will endow the work of an RFF Senior Fellow. (May 14, 2001)


April 2001

Two New Books Available from RFF Press
The new books are: People Managing Forests: The Links between Human Well- Being and Sustainability and Regulating from the Inside: Can Environmental Management Systems Achieve Policy Goals?
(April 24, 2001)


March 2001

In Memorium — Allen V. Kneese, 1930-2001
Kneese played a major part in developing the economic principles that have become increasingly influential in environmental policy worldwide over the past 40 years.
(March 16, 2001)