GHG Cap-and-Trade: Implications for Effective and Efficient Climate Policy in Oregon
Like many other states, Oregon has begun to pursue climate policies to attempt to fill the gap created by the lack of effective climate policy at the Federal level.
Research
Stock Price Rewards to Climate Saints and Sinners: Evidence from the Trump Election
Donald Trump’s election and his nomination of Scott Pruitt, a climate skeptic, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency drastically downshifted expectations on US climate-change policy.
The Value of Regulatory Discretion: Estimates from Environmental Inspections in India
High pollution persists in many developing countries despite strict environmental rules. We use a field experiment and a structural model to study how plant emission standards are enforced.
Some Context for Canadians Who Love or Hate the New Nafta
Americans are not the only ones still unpacking the new USMCA trade deal that is due to replace Nafta.
US Is Forced to See It Is Far From ‘Energy Independent’
The disappearance and likely death of Jamal Khashoggi is a clarifying moment.
Observation-Based Solar and Wind Power Capacity Factors and Power Densities
Power density is the rate of energy generation per unit of land surface area occupied by an energy system.
Simultaneous Pursuit of Discovery and Invention in the Us Department of Energy
There is a sharp boundary between basic and applied research in the organizational structure of the US Department of Energy (DOE).
Conflict, Climate, and Cells: A Disaggregated Analysis
We conduct a disaggregated empirical analysis of civil conflict at the subnational level in Africa over 1997 to 2011 using a new gridded data set.
Governance of the Deployment of Solar Geoengineering
This paper is based in part on a workshop organized and hosted by the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 27–28, 2018.
Nurturing Transformative U.S. Energy Research: Two Guiding Principles
Energy research is critical to continuing advances in human productivity and welfare.
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