Alan Krupnick
Senior Fellow; Director, Industry and Fuels Program
Alan Krupnick is a senior fellow at Resources for the Future and an expert on the oil and gas sector, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from this and the industrial sectors, and cost-benefit analysis. In particular, Krupnick’s recent research focuses on green public procurement, decarbonized hydrogen and tax credits, and developing markets for green natural gas. His portfolio also includes guiding the value of information agenda covered by our VALUABLES initiative with NASA, the valuation of reducing asthma risks, estimating the value of statistical life, and issues of regulatory reform.
Krupnick served as senior economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers, advising the Clinton administration on environmental and natural resource policy issues. In 2011 he was elected president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and earlier that year was named an AERE Fellow. He has served on the Editorial Boards of a number of journals. He co-chaired a federal advisory committee counseling the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the implementation of new ozone and particulate standards. He is a regular member of expert committees from the National Academy of Sciences, EPA, and various Canadian government and non-governmental institutions. Krupnick also consults with state governments, federal agencies, private corporations, the Canadian government, the European Union, the Asian Development Bank, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland in 1980.
Krupnick’s primary research methodology is in the development and analysis of stated preference surveys (such as contingent valuation and choice experiments), which include eliciting preferences for reductions in mortality risks, environmental risks, tradeoffs involved in improving community drinking water quality with respect to removal of carcinogens versus microbiological agents, and most recently, the risks from shale gas development as seen by experts and the general public. His work has been published in the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (REEP), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM), Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU), Land Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics (AJAE), Decision Analysis, Environment and Resource Economics (ERE), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JAPAM), Environmental Science and Technology (ES&T) and other scholarly journals and books.
Education
- PhD in Economics, University of Maryland, 1980
- BS in Finance, the Pennsylvania State University, 1969
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Media Highlight — Nov 13, 2024
E&E News: “Trump May End Biden’s ‘Green’ Hydrogen Dream”
RFF Senior Fellow Alan Krupnick lends his expertise to this story about the future of hydrogen development in the United States.
Working Paper — Oct 22, 2024
Developing a Carbon Dioxide Removal Program in California
In this working paper, the authors explore the design and policy challenges of developing a Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) program in California, offering insights on scaling CDR technologies while ensuring environmental justice.
Issue Brief — Oct 17, 2024
Air Quality Impacts of New York State Cap-Trade-and-Invest Design
Air Quality Impacts of New York State Cap-Trade-and-Invest Design
Resources Magazine — Oct 7, 2024
Elections Matter. So Does Policy Research.
As the presidential election nears, and regardless of outcome, researchers at Resources for the Future continue to pursue work that will inspire interest, bipartisan coalitions, and progress on policy issues, given the political resilience of the topics.
Working Paper — Oct 22, 2024
Developing a Carbon Dioxide Removal Program in California
In this working paper, the authors explore the design and policy challenges of developing a Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) program in California, offering insights on scaling CDR technologies while ensuring environmental justice.
Issue Brief — Oct 17, 2024
Air Quality Impacts of New York State Cap-Trade-and-Invest Design
Air Quality Impacts of New York State Cap-Trade-and-Invest Design
Report — Jul 1, 2024
Exploring Hydrogen's Role in Heavy-Duty Trucking
This report shares an overview of hydrogen truck technology, compares it to diesel and electric batter trucks, and discusses its policy landscape in the United States.
Issue Brief — Jun 17, 2024
Prioritizing Justice in New York’s Cap-Trade-and-Invest: Obligating Electricity and Capping Generator Emissions
This issue brief, produced in partnership with the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, presents two ways to make New York State's cap-trade-and-invest system more effective at reducing emissions near disadvantaged communities.
Webinar — Oct 16, 2024
Analyzing Industrial Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation
A webinar featuring industry experts discussing models and analysis, alternative policies, energy pricing, and areas of greatest potential industrial emissions mitigation.
RFF Live — Mar 12, 2024
Green Cities: Strategies for Decreasing Construction Emissions
Green Cities: Strategies for Decreasing Construction Emissions
Workshop — May 23, 2023
Workshop on Tracking and Evaluation of RD&D Programs at DOE
Workshop on Tracking and Evaluation of RD&D Programs at DOE
Workshop — Dec 17, 2021
VALUABLES Community of Practice Meeting
A presentation of research projects quantifying the benefits of using satellite data in socioeconomic decisionmaking.
Resources Magazine — Oct 7, 2024
Elections Matter. So Does Policy Research.
As the presidential election nears, and regardless of outcome, researchers at Resources for the Future continue to pursue work that will inspire interest, bipartisan coalitions, and progress on policy issues, given the political resilience of the topics.
Resources Magazine — Oct 7, 2024
From 1959 Through Today: 65 Years of Resources Magazine
The past 65 years of Resources—the full archive of articles dating back to the start of the magazine in 1959—are now freely available online to anyone who’s looking for accurate, trustworthy information about environmental economics.
Common Resources — Sep 5, 2024
Après Chevron, Judges Rule
The recent US Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, which overturns a long-standing precedent called the Chevron deference, is representative of a broader transfer of regulatory power from government agencies to courts.
Common Resources — Apr 17, 2024
After the Pause: Understanding the Economic, Environmental, and Geopolitical Implications of Increased US Liquefied Natural Gas Exports
As the Biden administration temporarily pauses approvals for building new export facilities that transport liquefied natural gas, we’ve assembled a primer on the national and global implications of the US increasing exports of this important fuel.
Media Highlight — Nov 13, 2024
E&E News: “Trump May End Biden’s ‘Green’ Hydrogen Dream”
RFF Senior Fellow Alan Krupnick lends his expertise to this story about the future of hydrogen development in the United States.
Press Release — Jun 17, 2024
Together, the Inclusion of the Power Sector in the New York Cap-Trade-and-Invest Program and Facility-Specific Caps Help Disadvantaged Communities
A new issue brief explores ways to make New York State’s cap-trade-and-invest system more effective at reducing emissions near disadvantaged communities.
Media Highlight — Mar 19, 2024
POLITICO: “Should NY Adopt Facility-Specific Emissions Caps? Groups’ Report Says Yes.”
A piece in POLITICO Pro and E&E News profiles a new report by researchers from RFF and the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance about potential designs for New York State‘s new cap-trade-and-invest program.
Press Release — Mar 18, 2024
Adding Protections to a Cap-Trade-and-Invest Program in New York Could Make Disadvantaged Communities Better Off
In a new report, a research team finds that a cap-trade-and-invest policy that includes emissions caps for the residential, transportation, and electric power sectors, as well as specific caps for each power plant, can reduce emissions near disadvantaged