A Taxonomy of Oil Spill Costs: What are the Likely Costs of theDeepwater Horizon Spill?

Who Pays, When, and How Much?: A Primer on Oil Spill Liability Law

The legal consequences of the ongoing BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, now the largest in U.S. history, will reverberate for years to come.

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.