Greenhouse Gases and the Clean Air Act

by RFF News 4. August 2010 14:12
RFF's Weekly Policy Commentary: Greenhouse Gases and the Clean Air Act: A Useful Option for the Short Term by Dallas Burtraw, Art Fraas, and Nathan Richardson In the absence of new legislation taxing carbon or establishing a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases in the United St... [More]

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What's the Optimal Tax on Mining?

by RFF News 14. July 2010 14:18
RFF's Weekly Policy Commentary by John E. Tilton (author of On Borrowed Time: Assessing the Threat of Mineral Depletion and Mineral Wealth and Economic Development)  A number of governments have recently imposed stiffer taxes on mining activities. While raising more revenue for... [More]

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RFF Awarded FEEM 20th Anniversary Prize

by RFF News 1. July 2010 13:23
Unanimously selected from among over 90 nominations, Resources for the Future was named a co-recipient of the FEEM 20th Anniversary Prize in Environmental Economics on June 30, 2010, at the Fourth World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists in Montreal, Canada. The prize, carry... [More]

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The Role of Green Technology Transfer in Climate Policy

by RFF News 29. June 2010 10:34
Check out the latest installment in RFF's Weekly Policy Commentary Series.  I'll be posting links to the essays each week (every other week in the summer). The Role of Green Technology Transfer in Climate Policy Deflecting the trajectory of rapidly expanding greenhouse... [More]

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Need a Quick Fix of Environmental Policy?

by RFF News 25. June 2010 11:07
RFF’s Weekly Policy Commentary series offers an easy way to learn about important policy issues related to environmental, natural resource, energy, urban, and public health problems.  Each week’s essay addresses a different environmental topic, with a short analysis and recommenda... [More]

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The Economist Recommends Taming the Anarchy

by RFF News 2. June 2010 09:44
With the challenges of climate change and a growing population, few environmental issues command the urgency of water.  Johnny Grimond, writer-at-large for The Economist recommends Tushaar Shah’s Taming the Anarchy: Groundwater Governance in South Asia (RFF Press, 2008) as a best backgr... [More]

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Two RFF Press Authors Named 2009 AERE Fellows

by RFF News 15. January 2010 04:34
The Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) named Richard T. Carson and Robert N. Stavins 2009 AERE Fellows at an American Economics Association Annual Meeting luncheon. The AERE Fellows Program was established in 2005 to “recognize outstanding contributions to the... [More]

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