Common Resources
A blog that offers timely analysis and commentary about pressing environmental and energy issues.
Common Resources Archive
A Giant Rebound? How the Coupling of ACE and Federal Energy Policies to Protect Coal Could Drive Up CO2 Emissions
Sept. 18, 2018
Critiquing the Trump Administration’s Analysis of Consumer Behavior in the Proposed CAFE Standards
Sept. 17, 2018
EPA’s ANPRM on Increasing Consistency and Transparency in Benefit Cost Analysis
Sept. 17, 2018
Can Fleeting Public Interest in Wildfire Risk Drive Long-Term Change?
Sept. 13, 2018
New satellite data: Twice as many Americans live in counties not meeting fine particulate air quality standards as previously thought.
Sept. 12, 2018
Air Pollution and Trump’s CAFE Proposal
Sept. 11, 2018
Why and How Do New Vehicle Fuel Economy Standards Affect Consumer Vehicle Purchases?
Sept. 4, 2018
Ancillary Benefits Redux: We Can’t Afford the Affordable Clean Energy Rule
Aug. 31, 2018
Changing the Game for Coal: How Federal Energy Policies Could Impact Coal Plant Retirement
Aug. 30, 2018
Why All the Talk about Gas Prices and Fuel Economy Standards?
Aug. 27, 2018
CPP Replacement: Emissions Increase “At the Source”?
Aug. 27, 2018
A Retrospective Look at the 2009 PHMSA Gas Distribution Rule and Its RIA
Aug. 21, 2018
Questions about the Trump Administration’s Cost-Benefit Analysis for its Proposal to Freeze the CAFE Standards
Aug. 20, 2018
Transparency Needed in Trump’s Plan to Partially Repeal PHMSA’s Tank Car Rule
July 20, 2018
GHG vs. GDP: Separating Signal from Noise
July 5, 2018
Adding Environmental Certainty to a Carbon Tax
June 27, 2018
Understanding a New Study on Oil and Gas Methane Emissions
June 25, 2018
Measured Modification to BSEE’s Well Control Rule
June 14, 2018
Climate and Environment in Peril—But What Else is New?
June 13, 2018
Seeing the Forests for the Carbon: Panel Looks for Opportunities and Obstacles
June 8, 2018
The Wall Street Journal is Wrong about Cost-Benefit Analysis at EPA
June 8, 2018
A Strategic Electricity Generating Reserve: Not Enticing Enough to Add to the Menu
June 7, 2018
Governor Brown Names RFF’s Dallas Burtraw as a Carbon Markets Advisor
June 7, 2018
GRACE Mission Analyses Illustrate the Value of Earth Observations
June 4, 2018
