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Technology Flexibility and Stringency for Greenhouse Gas Regulations

Technology Flexibility and Stringency for Greenhouse Gas Regulations

Dallas Burtraw

July 23, 2013

This Week in the RFF Library Blog

This Week in the RFF Library Blog

RFF Staff

July 22, 2013

Consumer Subsidies Are Not the Only Subsidies for EVs

Consumer Subsidies Are Not the Only Subsidies for EVs

Virginia McConnell and Joshua Linn

July 17, 2013

Connecting International Climate Agreements and Domestic Actions: An Interview with Takashi Hattori

Connecting International Climate Agreements and Domestic Actions: An Interview with Takashi Hattori

RFF Staff

July 15, 2013

This Week in the RFF Library Blog

This Week in the RFF Library Blog

RFF Staff

July 15, 2013

Can Electric Vehicles Compete on Price?

Can Electric Vehicles Compete on Price?

Joshua Linn and Virginia McConnell

July 15, 2013

Are New Shale Gas Regulations in Illinois the Strongest in the Country?

Are New Shale Gas Regulations in Illinois the Strongest in the Country?

Nathan Richardson and Skyler Roeshot

July 12, 2013

Electric Vehicles: Hot New Technology, or Bust?

Electric Vehicles: Hot New Technology, or Bust?

Virginia McConnell and Joshua Linn

July 11, 2013

Gasland II: Not Truthland

Gasland II: Not Truthland

Alan Krupnick

July 10, 2013

Resources Magazine: The Controversy over US Coal Exports

Resources Magazine: The Controversy over US Coal Exports

Joel Darmstadter

July 10, 2013

Electric Vehicles: Myths, Reality, and Policy

Electric Vehicles: Myths, Reality, and Policy

Joshua Linn and Virginia McConnell

July 9, 2013

This Week in the RFF Library Blog

This Week in the RFF Library Blog

RFF Staff

July 8, 2013

Video: Findings from RFF's Initiative "Managing the Risks of Shale Gas Development"

Video: Findings from RFF's Initiative "Managing the Risks of Shale Gas Development"

RFF Staff

July 5, 2013

Cap and Trade in California: Cost Management

Cap and Trade in California: Cost Management

Dallas Burtraw

July 3, 2013

The Global Cost of Carbon Emissions: A Lingering Quandary For Policy

The Global Cost of Carbon Emissions: A Lingering Quandary For Policy

Joel Darmstadter

July 3, 2013

The State of State Shale Gas Regulation

The State of State Shale Gas Regulation

Nathan Richardson

July 3, 2013

This Week in the RFF Library Blog

This Week in the RFF Library Blog

RFF Staff

July 2, 2013

What the President’s Climate Plan Means for Natural Gas

What the President’s Climate Plan Means for Natural Gas

Alan Krupnick

June 27, 2013

Obama's Biggest Climate Move Wasn't in His Speech

Obama's Biggest Climate Move Wasn't in His Speech

Nathan Richardson and Clayton Munnings

June 26, 2013

New Issue of Resources Magazine

New Issue of Resources Magazine

RFF Staff

June 25, 2013

This Week in the RFF Library Blog

This Week in the RFF Library Blog

RFF Staff

June 24, 2013

Comparing the Clean Air Act and a Carbon Price

Comparing the Clean Air Act and a Carbon Price

Arthur G. Fraas and Nathan Richardson

June 24, 2013

Thinking About the Energy-Efficiency Gap

Thinking About the Energy-Efficiency Gap

June 20, 2013

Hurricane Sandy and the National Flood Insurance Program

Hurricane Sandy and the National Flood Insurance Program

RFF Staff

June 18, 2013