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| Unnatural Disasters? |
| Resources: Sheila Olmstead and Carolyn Kousky explain why Mother Nature isn’t the sole cause of 2011’s billion-dollar string of disasters. |
| Borrowing to Save Energy: An Assessment of Energy-Efficiency Financing Programs |
| In a new report, RFF experts explain how markets for energy-efficiency financing work and examine various government and utility financing programs in the United States, identifying gaps in knowledge and information and recommending next steps. |
| Reactions to EPA’s Proposed Power Plant Standards |
| Resident Scholar Nathan Richardson takes a quick look at EPA’s proposed performance standards for new power plants. |
| Secular Trends, Environmental Regulations, and Electricity Markets |
| RFF experts examine downward trends in natural gas prices and electricity consumption (known as secular trends), finding that these changes have a substantially bigger impact on electricity prices and the contribution of coal to electricity supply than do recent EPA regulations. |
| Measuring Conservation’s Return on Investment |
| As conservation organizations widen their goals to include human well-being, return on investment analysis is a promising tool for measuring the social and economic benefits of conservation. Jim Boyd explains in the latest edition of Resources magazine. |
| Invasive Species: Impacts, Challenges, and Strategies for Management |
| At a recent First Wednesday Seminar, a panel of experts convened to discuss the complex ecological, economic, and policy implications of invasive species. Event video and presentations are now available. |
| Energy Efficiency Resource Standards: Comparisons and a Closer Look |
| New research from RFF experts examines energy efficiency resource standards, an increasingly popular policy approach among states to spur investment in energy efficiency measures and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. |
| Improving Fuel Economy in Heavy-Duty Vehicles |
| RFF’s Winston Harrington and Alan Krupnick examine the new federal regulations mandating improvements in fuel economy among heavy-duty commercial vehicles, noting that market-oriented approaches might work better. |
| How Carbon Neutral is Bioenergy? |
| At a recent RFF seminar, Senior Fellow and Center for Forest Economics and Policy Director Roger Sedjo discussed the issue of emissions from wood energy. Video and slides from the event are now available. |
| State Parks: Assessing Their Benefits |
| Resources: Juha Siikamäki explains why, in an era of tight budgets, state parks remain well worth their costs. |
| Carbon Policy under the Clean Air Act: Examining Tradable Standards |
| EPA faces several choices as it crafts its approach for regulating stationary-source greenhouse gas emissions. RFF experts look at one option, tradable standards, in a new discussion paper. |
| Rare Earths Markets: Implications for the U.S. Wind Energy Sector |
| In this new RFF report, experts examine some of the key economic and physical factors influencing rare earths markets, focusing on how China’s market dominance may affect the U.S. wind energy sector. |
| Rethinking Environmental Federalism in a Warming World |
| In a new discussion paper, William Shobe and RFF Senior Fellow Dallas Burtraw highlight the importance of accounting for the federal relationship between national and subnational levels of government. |
| Conservation Return on Investment Analysis: Results, Methods, and New Directions |
| In a review of conservation return on investment (ROI) literature, RFF experts argue for broadening the application of ROI analysis methods to attain more effective ecological outcomes. |
| Putting Politics Aside: The Consequences of the Keystone XL Rejection |
| RFF Senior Fellows Joel Darmstadter and Alan Krupnick write that the president’s decision will have little impact on jobs, energy security, or the environment. |
| Adapting Environmental Policy for the Developing World |
| Researchers from Environment for Development centers investigated some of the challenges faced by policymakers in developing countries, including the economic impacts of public health issues and the effects of climate change on agricultural productivity. |
| Regulating Greenhouse Gases from Coal Power Plants under the Clean Air Act |
| New research from RFF experts confirms that there are important, low-cost opportunities to reduce CO2 emissions at existing coal-fired facilities in the short run. |
| GHG Regulation for Power Plants under the Clean Air Act |
| At a recent RFF First Wednesday Seminar, panelists discussed the scope, design, and implications of using the Clean Air Act to regulate emissions from coal-fired power plants. Event audio and video are now available. |
| Green Infrastructure’s Role in Adaptation to Climate Change |
| A new RFF report highlights the importance of effectively targeting green infrastructure investment. |
| Fiscal Reform and Climate Protection |
| Policy design, potential revenue generation, and economic impact of a U.S. carbon tax were among the topics discussed at a recent workshop co-hosted by RFF’s Center for Climate and Electricity Policy and the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Presentations from the event are now available. |
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