Fracking Fissures: Will Politics Impede Production?

Comment on the Bureau of Land Management’s Proposed Rule on Oil and Gas Leasing

Proposed changes would have little impact on domestic oil and gas production but would substantially increase the risk that US taxpayers will have to shoulder the costs of decommissioning oil and gas well sites on federal lands.

Deep-Sea Mining? Exploring Key Trade-Offs for the Energy Transition

This paper assesses the economic, environmental, social, and governance trade-offs between deep-sea mining and terrestrial mining.

Geologic Hydrogen: Could the Smallest Molecule Power the Whole World?, with Ishan Sharma

Ishan Sharma evaluates the potential of abundant underground hydrogen to provide clean energy, and what the geologic hydrogen industry would need to compete on a large scale.

EconoFact: “The Costs of Continuing Coal-Fired Power in the United States”

RFF Senior Fellow Bryan Hubbell publishes a memo based on a popular If/Then blog post.