Common Resources
A blog that offers timely analysis and commentary about pressing environmental and energy issues.
Common Resources Archive
COVID-19 Has Delayed Global Climate Talks, but Viable Climate Change Mitigation Strategies Still Exist
July 27, 2020
The Science of Forecasting: The Special Sauce
July 27, 2020
The Trump Administration’s Regulatory Repeal Agenda Faces Another Setback. How did the Court do on Its Economics?
July 24, 2020
The Potential for Plugging Abandoned Wells as Green Economic Stimulus
July 23, 2020
Improving the Scientific Basis for Estimating the Social Cost of Carbon
July 17, 2020
Conversations on Climate Challenges: Wildfire Policy and Public Health
July 9, 2020
A Close Look at the New Report from the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis
July 6, 2020
Solar Radiation Management as a Climate Intervention: An Extended Q&A from the RFF Live Webinar
July 2, 2020
Quantifying the Socioeconomic Benefits of Using Satellite Data to Detect Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms
June 26, 2020
Dam Breaches in Michigan Raise Questions for Dam Maintenance Across the Nation
May 27, 2020
National Park Gateway Communities, the Outdoor Recreation Economy, and COVID-19
May 22, 2020
Eulogy for Stephen P. A. Brown, Economics Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
May 15, 2020
The State of Global Climate Policy after the Delay of COP26
May 15, 2020
Tree Planting, Land Use, and Forest Climate Benefits
May 7, 2020
Keep it in the Ground? It’s Not a Simple Yes or No
May 7, 2020
The Transportation Climate Initiative Needs Stable Revenues. An “Allowance Supply Staircase” Will Help.
April 30, 2020
Energy Service Subscriptions Could Pave the Way to an Electrified Economy
April 29, 2020
Preparation Now for Environmental Opportunities in Fiscal Stimulus Programs
April 24, 2020
Stimulus Options for the Oil Patch
April 24, 2020
RFFlections: On this 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, RFF Scholars Reflect On How the Environment Has Shaped Their Work
April 22, 2020
Celebrating 50 Years of Earth Day
April 22, 2020
Three Prongs for a Prudent Climate Policy
April 21, 2020
Deepwater Horizon, 10 Years Later—A Collection of RFF’s Work on the Aftermath of the Gulf Oil Spill
April 20, 2020
Legal Defects in FERC’s War on State Electricity Subsidies
April 15, 2020
