Resilient Energy Economies | Local Perspectives on Economic Futures: The View From Oil and Gas Communities

Date

May 19, 2026

Time

2:00–3:00 p.m. ET

Participants

Nyakundi Michieka, Daniel Raimi, and Julia Haggerty

Event Series

Webinar

Details

The oil and gas industry is a major economic driver in communities across the country, but price volatility, geological factors, and state and federal policy can all create short- and long-term risks to these communities’ economic stability. Using insights gathered from interviews in oil-and-gas-producing western Colorado, central Oklahoma, and Kern County, California, presenters will highlight how these communities think about their economic futures and offer potential strategies to increase their economic resilience.

Featuring:

Nyakundi Michieka, University of California Santa Barbara
Daniel Raimi, Resources for the Future
Julia Haggerty, Montana State University (moderator)

Participants

Nyakundi Michieka

Daniel Raimi

Fellow; Director, Communities in the Energy Transition Initiative

Daniel Raimi is a fellow and director of the Communities in the Energy Transition Initiative at RFF. He works on a range of energy policy issues with a focus on tools to enable an equitable energy transition.

Julia Haggerty

University Fellow

Julia Haggerty is a university fellow at RFF.

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