Common Resources
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Common Resources Archive
The Trade-Off between Costs and Emissions for the Hydrogen Tax Credit
March 21, 2023
How Do Wildfires Affect Local Economies?
March 16, 2023
New from Resources for the Future: The Carbon Scoring Project
March 16, 2023
Remembering Milton Russell
March 13, 2023
Targeted Regulation Can Reduce the Frequency of High-Ozone Events
March 6, 2023
Flood Bubble: How Housing Markets Underestimate Climate Change
Feb. 16, 2023
Hydrogen Hubs: How Is the US Department of Energy Picking Winners (and Losers)?
Feb. 9, 2023
Hydrogen Hubs: Get to Know the Encouraged Applicants
Feb. 7, 2023
Climate Policy in the Courts
Jan. 30, 2023
What Forces Will Shape Energy and the Environment in 2023?
Jan. 20, 2023
What Are the Benefits of Electric Vehicles for Climate, Air Pollution, and Health?
Jan. 3, 2023
RFF’s Top Stories of 2022
Dec. 21, 2022
RFF at 70: From Resource Economics to a Net-Zero Economy
Dec. 15, 2022
Remembering Herman Daly
Dec. 14, 2022
What Do Hydrogen-Hub Developers and Producers Want? Is the US Department of Energy Meeting Their Needs?
Dec. 1, 2022
COP27 in Context
Nov. 28, 2022
Four Issues and Outcomes That Rose to the Top at the COP27 Climate Conference
Nov. 22, 2022
Geeking Out on Geography: Mapping Policy Scenarios for the Energy Transition
Nov. 16, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency Introduces a New Social Cost of Carbon for Public Comment
Nov. 15, 2022
Remembering Robert C. Mitchell
Nov. 11, 2022
What Do Prospective Hydrogen-Hub End Users Want? We’ve Summarized Comments They Submitted to the US Department of Energy
Nov. 3, 2022
How Can Hydrogen Producers Show That They Are “Clean”?
Oct. 27, 2022
Reflecting the Protection of Nature in Insurance
Oct. 13, 2022
Promoting Hydrogen: The Plan for Evaluating Hydrogen-Hub Project Proposals
Oct. 12, 2022