Date
Dec. 14, 2010
News Type
Media Highlight
Source
The Street
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Nathan Richardson
University Fellow
Nathan Richardson is an attorney and university fellow at RFF, where he specializes in environmental law and economics.
Managing Heat Risk: Crop Insurance and Rural Economic Resilience
This working paper explores how extreme heat impacts crop insurance enrollment, finding that declines in crop yield from extreme heat do, in fact, increase enrollment.
The Seattle Times: “Spokane Wildfires Raise Homeowner Fears over Insurance Coverage”
RFF Senior Fellow Margaret Walls comments on rising insurance prices.
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.
If/Then: Recent Changes to Federal Disaster Policy Will Speed the Delivery of Recovery Resources to Vulnerable Communities
If reforms to the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery program are implemented as intended, then lower-income disaster survivors will see faster, more predictable recovery funding. But broader reforms are still in flux.
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