Common Resources
A blog that offers timely analysis and commentary about pressing environmental and energy issues.
Common Resources Archive
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
Oil, Gas Drive Government Revenue in Kansas’ Hugoton Region
April 16, 2015
This Week in the RFF Library Blog
April 14, 2015
Show Us the Money: An Early Look at Utility Bill Savings from Municipal Benchmarking and Disclosure Laws
April 9, 2015
Managing Oil-Gas Activity Costs a Challenge in Southern Kansas
April 2, 2015
Using the Social Cost of Carbon in the Bureau of Land Management’s Planning: An Opportunity for a Carbon Price?
March 31, 2015
Should We Price the Carbon From Federal Coal?
March 30, 2015
Competing Goals in Fishery Management: A Case Study in Alaska
March 25, 2015