Common Resources
A blog that offers timely analysis and commentary about pressing environmental and energy issues.
Common Resources Archive
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
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
