Contradictions and Challenges in China's Water Policy Development

Report — Jan 13, 2025

Analyzing Affordability: Supporting Households under New York’s Cap-Trade-and-Invest Policy

Analyzing Affordability: Supporting Households under New York’s Cap-Trade-and-Invest Policy

On the Issues — Jan 10, 2025

On the Issues: Sizing Up 2024, Nature-Based Climate Solutions, and More

A biweekly newsletter connecting global current events, pressing climate and energy policy news, and economics research from RFF scholars. This week: Sizing up 2024, nature-based climate solutions, and more.

Journal Article — Jan 9, 2025

Impacts of EPA’s Finalized Power Plant Greenhouse Gas Standards

Emissions reductions may be met with relatively small costs.

Press Release — Jan 9, 2025

EPA Power Plant Rules Could Reduce Emissions, Speed Up Coal Plant Retirements

A new article in the journal Science finds that the US Environmental Protection Agency’s May 2024 rules limiting emissions from power plants could reduce US power-sector carbon emissions by 73 to 86 percent below 2005 levels by 2040.