Common Resources
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Common Resources Archive

Managing Revenues through a Downturn in Texas’s Eagle Ford Shale
Jan. 30, 2017

Clarifying the Role of Behavioral Economics in Improving Policy Design
Jan. 24, 2017

Takeaways from Rick Perry's Confirmation Hearing for Secretary of Energy
Jan. 19, 2017

How Pruitt’s Hearing Illuminated His View of His Role as EPA Administrator
Jan. 19, 2017

Coastal Protected Lands and Sea-Level Rise
Jan. 19, 2017

Fuel Economy Standards: Take the Time to Get It Right
Jan. 18, 2017

Impressions: Rep. Zinke’s Nomination Hearing to be Secretary of the Interior
Jan. 18, 2017

The Paris Agreement under Trump and the Merits of an Economy-Wide Carbon Tax
Jan. 17, 2017

Saving Coal: Reprieve Through Carbon Capture and Sequestration?
Jan. 4, 2017

The Sources of Decreasing US Electricity Sector Emissions
Jan. 3, 2017

The Challenge of Measuring Water Conservation Programs
Dec. 21, 2016

Understanding EPA’s Final Report on Hydraulic Fracturing
Dec. 15, 2016

NASA Selects RFF as Home for New Earth Observation Consortium
Dec. 12, 2016

Is Flood Insurance Too Expensive?
Dec. 9, 2016

The Permian Basin: Local Fiscal Benefits, Challenges, and Surprises
Dec. 6, 2016

California’s New Legislation on Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
Nov. 11, 2016

Divergent Fiscal Impacts in Neighboring Pennsylvania Counties
Nov. 10, 2016

The Trump Administration and Climate
Nov. 10, 2016

Five Climate Guideposts for the Next Administration
Nov. 4, 2016

Franchising National Parks? Lessons from the Nobel Laureates
Nov. 2, 2016

Bakken 2016: Managing a Downturn and Planning for an Uncertain Future
Oct. 28, 2016

When Environmental Anxiety Confronted the Energy Crisis
Oct. 24, 2016

A Tool for Meeting Emissions Reductions Targets under a Carbon Tax
Oct. 17, 2016

Local Fiscal Impacts of a Drilling Slowdown Along Colorado’s Front Range
Oct. 11, 2016