May

RFF Scholar Considers EPA Oversight for Nanotechnology Senior Fellow Terry Davies authors new report released by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies
(May 23, 2007)

Uncertainty and Action: Considering the IPCC Report Senior Fellow Billy Pizer testifies before Congress on the Working Group III Fourth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
(May 16, 2007)

RFF Announces Recipients Of Fellowship Program Awards For 2007-08 Academic Year Nine academic fellowships and special internship awardees have been named  by Resources for the Future to conduct environmental and energy research during the coming year.
(May 16, 2007)

April

RFF Scholar Suggests a Way Forward for Earth Science Senior Fellow Molly Macauley and other colleagues in the Earth sciences community have called for a National Earth-Information Initiative, to be implemented now and completed by 2010.
(April 9, 2007)

March

Lessons Learned from the EU Emission Trading Scheme: RFF Scholars Testify Before House, Senate  Senior Fellows Dallas Burtraw and Ray Kopp testified before Congress on lessons U.S. policymakers can draw from the EU's experience with its cap-and-trade program on carbon emissions.
(March 29, 2007)

February

RFF President Testifies on Climate Change Policy RFF President Phil Sharp testifiesd before the House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, outlining a proposal for a mandatory program to address climate change.(February 13, 2007)

Impact of MD Joining Greenhouse Gas Pact RFF researchers Karen Palmer and Dallas Burtraw collaborate on a study headed by the University of Maryland's Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER).
(February 1, 2007)

January

RFF President Briefs Senate Agriculture Committee on Energy, Oil Dependency RFF President Phil Sharp testifies that strong, persistent policies are needed to ensure that benefits from research and technological developments in the field of energy are realized.
(January 11, 2007)

What Drives Telecommuting? RFF researchers Margaret Walls, Elena Safirova and Yi Jiang find significant differences between individuals who telecommute and those who do not.
(January 10, 2007)

Congestion Pricing to Ease Traffic Jams RFF researchers have found that using cordon pricing schemes could result in less road congestion and provide a much-needed local revenue source.
(January 10, 2007)

RFF Researchers Win Petry Prize Richard Newell and William Pizer have been awarded the Petry Research Prize for the Economics of Climate Change by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
(January 5, 2007)