Risk Regulation Lesson from Mad Cows analyses and compares the policy responses in the U.K. and U.S. to the mad cow disease crisis. The…
Two decades have passed since the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 launched a grand experiment in market-based environmental policy: the…
The mad cow disease crisis in the United Kingdom (U.K.) was a major policy disaster. The government and public health officials failed to…
The last ten years have seen the growth of linkages between many of the world’s cap-and-trade systems for greenhouse gases (GHGs), both…
In many regulated markets, private, third-party auditors are chosen and paid by the firms that they audit, potentially creating a conflict…
Whatever loathing voters feel toward Washington, D.C., it is a fair bet they make an exception for America’s national parks — immortalized…
Suppressed prices in real-time markets provide inadequate incentives for both generation investment and active participation by demand…
American politicians often take it for granted that national security would be enhanced by accelerating domestic oil production, through…
Climate change is a complex long-run phenomenon. The speed and severity with which it is occurring is difficult to observe, complicating…
Integrated policy and planning is needed to effectively meet the challenges of growing water and energy inter-dependencies in many regions…