Controlling Urban Air Pollution: A Benefit Cost Assessment

Losing the Endangerment Finding: Context, Methods, and What’s to Come

Upcoming research from Resources for the Future examines how the rescission of the endangerment finding may affect public health, the environment, and the US economy.

Incorporating Air Quality Health Impacts Into the Social Cost of Carbon

This article provides a comprehensive framework for determining which air quality impacts belong in the social cost of carbon, which is an estimate that measures economic damages from each additional ton of carbon dioxide that is emitted into the atmosphe

If/Then: Pending Deregulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Create Significant Negative Health Effects

If the US Environmental Protection Agency finalizes a rule on greenhouse gas emissions without quantifying related effects on human health, then Congress could respond by requiring this and future rules to account for human health effects.

Global Energy Outlook 2026: How the World Lost the Goal of 1.5°C

RFF’s annual Global Energy Outlook harmonizes a range of long-term energy projections to find key trends in global energy consumption, emissions, and geopolitics.