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Highlights from “The Real Outcomes of Federal Environmental Regulations: Lessons from the Performance Data”

Highlights from “The Real Outcomes of Federal Environmental Regulations: Lessons from the Performance Data”

Shannon Wulf Tregar

Nov. 2, 2015

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Do Our Social Institutions Affect Our Personalities?

James Boyd and Carolyn Kousky

Oct. 30, 2015

Trade-Restrictions as a Tool of Climate Change Policy

Trade-Restrictions as a Tool of Climate Change Policy

Joel Darmstadter

Oct. 30, 2015

What Will New Regulations Mean for Heavy-Duty Truck Use and the Rebound Effect?

What Will New Regulations Mean for Heavy-Duty Truck Use and the Rebound Effect?

Benjamin Leard, Joshua Linn, Virginia McConnell, and William Raich

Oct. 29, 2015

What Changes Our Environmental Desires? The Impacts of Social Norms

What Changes Our Environmental Desires? The Impacts of Social Norms

James Boyd and Carolyn Kousky

Oct. 28, 2015

Thoughts on the Future of Environmental Regulation: Approaching Integration

Thoughts on the Future of Environmental Regulation: Approaching Integration

J. Clarence (Terry) Davies

Oct. 23, 2015

What Changes our Environmental Desires?  Experience and Learning Matter

What Changes our Environmental Desires? Experience and Learning Matter

James Boyd and Carolyn Kousky

Oct. 23, 2015

Green Silk Roads: China’s Leadership in Global Low-Carbon Development

Green Silk Roads: China’s Leadership in Global Low-Carbon Development

Jiang Lin

Oct. 21, 2015

Highlights from Bob Nordhaus at “US Climate Policy: How We Got Here and What It Means for the Future”

Highlights from Bob Nordhaus at “US Climate Policy: How We Got Here and What It Means for the Future”

Shannon Wulf Tregar

Oct. 21, 2015

Designing Rebates to Protect Low-Income Households under a Carbon Tax

Designing Rebates to Protect Low-Income Households under a Carbon Tax

Chad Stone

Oct. 21, 2015

This Week in the RFF Library Blog

This Week in the RFF Library Blog

Oct. 19, 2015

What Changes Our Environmental Desires? A Look at Taste Formation

What Changes Our Environmental Desires? A Look at Taste Formation

James Boyd and Carolyn Kousky

Oct. 15, 2015

This Week in the RFF Library Blog

This Week in the RFF Library Blog

Oct. 14, 2015

Growing Environmentalism: The Difference between Desires, Behavior, and Preferences

Growing Environmentalism: The Difference between Desires, Behavior, and Preferences

James Boyd and Carolyn Kousky

Oct. 13, 2015

Five Energy and Environmental Questions for the Presidential Field

Five Energy and Environmental Questions for the Presidential Field

Alan Krupnick, Molly Macauley, and Richard D. Morgenstern

Oct. 13, 2015

Are We Becoming More Environmental? An Introduction

Are We Becoming More Environmental? An Introduction

James Boyd and Carolyn Kousky

Oct. 9, 2015

New Resources Article—The Impacts of a US Carbon Tax across Income Groups and States

New Resources Article—The Impacts of a US Carbon Tax across Income Groups and States

Roberton C. Williams III, Dallas Burtraw, and Richard D. Morgenstern

Oct. 7, 2015

The Papal Encyclical and Climate Change Policy

The Papal Encyclical and Climate Change Policy

Robert Stavins

Oct. 6, 2015

Obama and Xi Take Climate Action to the Next Level

Obama and Xi Take Climate Action to the Next Level

Phil Sharp

Oct. 2, 2015

Five Takeaways from EPA’s New Ozone Standard

Five Takeaways from EPA’s New Ozone Standard

Alan Krupnick and Kristen McCormack

Oct. 2, 2015

Valuing Private Goods with Public Benefits: Confessions of a “Clean” Diesel Owner

Valuing Private Goods with Public Benefits: Confessions of a “Clean” Diesel Owner

Casey Wichman

Oct. 1, 2015

This Week in the RFF Library Blog

This Week in the RFF Library Blog

Sept. 30, 2015

New Issue of Resources—Creating Equity in Environmental Policy

New Issue of Resources—Creating Equity in Environmental Policy

Phil Sharp

Sept. 28, 2015

The VW Scandal and Competing Environmental Goals

The VW Scandal and Competing Environmental Goals

Joshua Linn and Virginia McConnell

Sept. 25, 2015