Common Resources
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Common Resources Archive

Resources Magazine: Complying with EPA’s Clean Power Plan: Options for States
June 10, 2015

Financing the Highway Trust Fund: The Case for Higher Fuel Taxes
June 10, 2015

Resources Magazine: A View of the Environmental Policy Landscape from Outside the Beltway: An Interview with Paul Portney
June 9, 2015

The EPA's Draft Report on Fracking and Drinking Water
June 4, 2015

Resources Magazine: Pits versus Tanks: Comparing Storage Methods for Fluids Used in Fracking
June 2, 2015

New Issue of Resources Magazine: On the Frontiers of Climate Policy
June 1, 2015

How Bad is the Nation’s Transportation Infrastructure, and What are Future Spending Needs?
May 29, 2015

Crude Oil Prices, Climate Change, and Global Welfare
May 28, 2015

This Is the Time for a Long-Term Solution to Highway Funding
May 22, 2015

Parks and Recreation this Memorial Day Weekend
May 22, 2015

Examining the Benefits of Invasive Species Prevention: The Role of Invader Temporal Characteristics
May 20, 2015

A Look at New Markets for Credit Trading under US Standards for Automobile Emissions and Fuel Economy
May 19, 2015

Joel Darmstadter: If Not a Carbon Tax and Universality, What Then?
May 15, 2015

This Week in the RFF Library Blog
May 7, 2015

Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Gap
May 7, 2015

Neighboring Utah Counties See Differing Fiscal Effects from Oil-Gas Activity
May 6, 2015

Congress Doesn’t Have Veto Power Over the Clean Power Plan
May 4, 2015

Significant, Widespread Health Benefits Possible under EPA’s Clean Power Plan
May 4, 2015

Vernal, Utah, Benefits from Fossils and Fossil Fuel Tax Revenues
May 1, 2015

This Week in the RFF Library Blog
April 29, 2015

Projected Reductions in Drilling Activity Do Not Undermine the Argument for Lifting the Crude Oil Export Ban
April 28, 2015

Road Maintenance Agreements Play Key Role in Utica Shale Region
April 27, 2015

Reauthorizing the Land and Water Conservation Fund: Three Key Issues
April 22, 2015

Wetzel County Realizes Benefits, Challenges of Marcellus Development
April 19, 2015