Common Resources
A blog that offers timely analysis and commentary about pressing environmental and energy issues.
Common Resources Archive
Reducing the Costs of US Fuel Economy and Emissions Standards
May 4, 2017
Air Quality Regulations Always Have Costs—Are They Worth It?
May 3, 2017
How Much Would You Pay for a Self-Driving Car? A New Podcast with RFF’s Ben Leard
May 2, 2017
National Monument Reviews: All Politics or Fair and Balanced Assessments?
May 1, 2017
On Trump, Paris, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
May 1, 2017
Trump’s Review of National Monument Designation Points to Larger Public Lands Issues
April 24, 2017
Why the U.S. Should Remain in the Paris Climate Agreement
April 24, 2017
An Earth Day Message
April 21, 2017
Trump’s Executive Order on Energy Independence: A Podcast with RFF’s Alan Krupnick
April 20, 2017
Reforming China’s Electricity System: Unsuccessful Attempts and New Proposals
April 12, 2017
Awarding Indigenous Communities Land Titles Reduces Tropical Forest Damage
April 3, 2017
Indigenous Peoples’ Role in Protecting Forests: Podcast with RFF Fellow Allen Blackman
April 3, 2017
RFF President Richard Newell on “Energy Independence”
March 30, 2017
Congressional Testimony: Principles for Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform
March 29, 2017
Trump’s Climate Executive Order Discards American Values
March 28, 2017
Conservatives' Embrace of a Carbon Tax Requires Revisiting the Coal Impact
March 28, 2017
Neither Side Gets Its Science Right in Maryland Fracking Ban Debate
March 22, 2017
What Can States Do to Reduce GHG Emissions from the Transportation Sector? A Podcast with Virginia McConnell
March 20, 2017
Learning About Earth from Space: New RFF Podcast on the Value of Data from Satellites
March 13, 2017
Trump’s Regulatory Task Force Executive Order: Is the Tiger Paper?
Feb. 28, 2017
An Ounce of Prevention: New RFF Podcast on Federal Flood Expenditures
Feb. 16, 2017
Doubling Down on Trump’s Two-for-One Regulatory Reform
Feb. 7, 2017
Revisiting the Keystone XL Pipeline’s Issues and Non-Issues
Feb. 1, 2017
Two for One: Too Blunt an Instrument for Good Governance?
Jan. 31, 2017
