Research that Informs Business and Public Policy- One university’s attempt to reduce energy waste at work Meredith Fowlie
- The Job Creation Shuffle Severin Borenstein
- How (and who) will pay for our energy infrastructure? James Bushnell
- Football – the Ultimate Demand Side Management Program? Maximilian Auffhammer
- Can Mammograms Teach Us Something Useful about Energy Efficiency? Catherine Wolfram
- Oil price crash shows the challenge of breaking addiction Severin Borenstein
- Energy efficiency is a tough sell- Even when it is “free”! Meredith Fowlie
- Raise the Gas Tax Lucas Davis
- Maybe it’s not all just about dollars and cents Maximilian Auffhammer
- Good Energy Reading for the Beach? Catherine Wolfram
Tag Archives: climate change
Good Energy Reading for the Beach?
I used to spend the week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve with my in-laws in Portland, OR. A couple years ago, it snowed for two days straight, and the city shut down. My brother-in-law has taken it upon himself … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, coal, electricity, fracking/hydraulic fracturing, wind
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Clinton (well Gore) went to Kyoto. Obama went to Beijing.
Many of us carbon nerds remember President Clinton’s 1997 remarks announcing that an agreement had been reached at the climate negotiations in Kyoto, Japan. The speech was full of hope and happy economic words like “tools of the free market,” … Continue reading
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Tagged CAFE, carbon emissions, Clean Power Plan, climate change, climate policy, greenhouse gas (GHG)
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Cross-state power flows complicate the Clean Power Plan
The release of the IPCC Synthesis Report earlier this month underscores the need for swift and aggressive action to combat climate change. With the shifting control of Congress, answering that call becomes more of an uphill battle. Image source One … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, emissions, energy efficiency, greenhouse gas (GHG), renewable energy
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What we don’t know about economic climate change impacts
A relatively recent econometric literature examines the impact of weather/climate on a variety of outcomes of economic interest. In order to provide an estimate of a climate impact you need two things: An estimate of how a sector responds to … Continue reading
Cap-and-Trade’s Moment of Truth
With the looming expansion of its cap-and-trade program to transportation fuels like gasoline, California is fast approaching a significant moment of truth for its climate policy. This has some people nervous, and there are growing rumblings of proposals to delay, perhaps … Continue reading
Open Sourcing Risky Business
A lot of the policy discussion, and many of our blog posts, focus on the difficult task of trying to slow climate change. It’s useful to remind ourselves of the difficulties associated with NOT slowing climate change. Last week, Michael … Continue reading
The Yoga Theorem
With yesterday’s historical release of the EPA’s new carbon emissions policy, I took an extra day to comb through and digest the news. I have organized my intermediate microeconomics class around something called the “Yoga Theorem.” This almost universal truth … Continue reading
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Tagged cap-and-trade, carbon tax, climate change, CO2, coal, emissions
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