Time to tally BP oil spill’s toll on wildlife, habitat

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.

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.

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.