Common Resources
A blog that offers timely analysis and commentary about pressing environmental and energy issues.
Common Resources Archive
RFF President Richard Newell Receives the USAEE Adelman-Frankel Award
Sept. 28, 2018
Marking a Decade of Climate Cap and Trade Policy Leadership
Sept. 25, 2018
The Outdoor Recreation Economy and Public Lands
Sept. 25, 2018
The Case of the Disappearing Fuel Cost Savings
Sept. 24, 2018
Relaxing EPA’s Methane Rule: Should It Stay or Should It Go?
Sept. 20, 2018
Recovering from Disasters: Evaluating FEMA’s Housing Assistance Program in the 2017 Hurricane Season
Sept. 19, 2018
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
