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| Split Estates: Finding a Workable Balance Between Surface and Sub-Surface Owners |
| In much of the western United States, private land is subject to legal arrangements known as “split estates,” in which landowners control what is on the surface, while others, such as energy and mining companies, own or lease the rights to underground oil, gas, and minerals. |
| How Should Policymakers Respond to Growing U.S. Oil Import Dependence? |
| In this election year, politicians on both sides are claiming to have ready answers about how to deal with growing U.S. dependence on foreign oil. RFF Senior Fellows Joel Darmstadter and Ian Parry explain why the problem is a lot more complicated than that in a new feature.
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| Estimating Community Economic Impacts from the Reuse of Contaminated Properties |
| RFF hosts a workshop to explore the challenges of measuring the economic impacts from reuse of contaminated properties. |
| RFF Policy Leadership Forum |
| James L. Connaughton, Chairman, White House Council on Environmental Quality speaks on "Attaining Productive Harmony in Environmental Policy in the 21st Century". |
| American Patent Policy, Biotechnology, and African Agriculture: The Case for Policy Change |
| Senior Fellow Michael Taylor and Jerry Cayford suggest changes that could help African farmers gain access to new technologies without undercutting the patent system. |
| to the Hans Landsberg Memorial Lecture |
| "Energy and Economics - Questions for the Future" |
| "The politics of American food safety" |
| The USDA was given a political blank check to impose new controls on the beef industry, after one domestic case of mad cow disease was discovered. |
| The Energy Journal: Special Issue in Honor of Hans Landsberg and Sam Schurr |
| RFF scholars Sam H. Schurr and Hans H. Landsberg are considered pioneers in energy economics. These men are honored by a special issue of The Energy Journal devoted to their research.
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| RFF joins the discussion at the COP - 9 Climate Conference |
| The COP-9 discussions in Milan revealed in more detail the difficulties of implementing an international agreement on global climate change. |
| Criticism of the administration's mercury proposal should not confuse the policy tool, emission trading, with the environmental target |
| Senior Fellows Dallas Burtraw and Alan Krupnick comment on the Bush's Administration's proposed changes to the Clean Air Act. |
| The Future of Natural Gas Markets |
| Now that the U.S. has experienced high natural gas prices, the quiet world of federal natural gas policy has become a lot noisier. At a recent RFF forum, National Petroleum Council and Stanford Energy Modeling Forum representatives present their views on what lies ahead. Read RFF's J.W. Anderson on the day's events and watch the conference video.
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| A new report on U.S. patent policy and African agriculture |
| Senior Fellow Michael Taylor and Jerry Cayford suggest changes that could help African farmers gain access to new technologies without undercutting the patent system. |
| superbug threat |
| Government action needed to combat threat of superbugs, say Fellow Ramanan Laxminarayan and Amazon Conservation Team President Mark Plotkin in the Washington Post.
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| Facing Challenges: the Environmental Protection Agency |
| RFF President and Senior Fellow Paul Portney comments on the issues faced by EPA following the resignation of EPA Administrator Christie Whitman.
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| Food Safety Research Consortium |
| RFF and other leading research institutions begin their efforts to develop tools for a more science- and risk-based food safety system.
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| Electricity Markets and Public Policy |
| RFF Senior Fellows Timothy Brennan and Karen Palmer analyze U.S. electricity markets and policy.
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| Transforming Our Perception of Fuel Economy: from MPG to Gallons per 100 Miles |
| Senior Fellow Carolyn Fischer makes the case for switching the nation’s fuel economy metric from miles per gallon to gallons per 100 miles in a new Issue Brief, arguing there is much to be gained from abandoning miles per gallon, including making CAFE credit trading simpler.
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| Certifying Eco-Sustainability: Identifying what Works |
| A just-published report assesses efforts to certify farms and companies that adhere to acceptable environmental values around the world. |
| China and Climate: Is the Past Prologue? |
| Future global climate policies will be swayed heavily by China’s role as a major contributor of carbon emissions. A new examination of recent Chinese–U.S. engagement provides useful clues to how the world’s largest nation intends to proceed on climate change. |
| Coffee Eco-certification: A Boon for the Environment? |
| Advocates claim that eco-certification of coffee, which is increasingly common, discourages growing practices that pollute water and degrade soil and biodiversity. A new RFF Discussion Paper assesses whether a Costa Rican certification program actually has such benefits. |
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