Environmental Economics
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Month: May 2023
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Krugman (Working From Home and Realizing What Matters): First things first: The reduction in commuting time is a seriously big deal. Before the pandemic, the average American adult spent about 0.28 hours per day, or more than 100 hours a year, on work-related travel. (Since not all adults are employed, the number for workers was…
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I participated in a survey conducted by Clemson this week. I was eligible because I had published a paper using opt-in panel data at some point. I posted the image to the right to twitter and proceeded to provide a brief review of what I thought about each of the panels I've used. I've been…
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On the day of the final in my 2000 level environmental and resource economics course, the WSJ published the article on Clean Power Plan 2.0 (Biden Administration Targets Power-Plant Emissions in New Climate Initiative): The Biden administration proposed new rules Thursday to drastically reduce greenhouse gases from coal- and gas-fired power plants—measures that will cost…
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From E&E news (Senators eye ‘CHIPS 2.0’ as vehicle for carbon tariff): As senators from both parties seek a pathway for advancing a bill imposing carbon tariffs, a potentially viable vehicle has emerged: a nascent legislative package to boost U.S. competitiveness against China. Senate Democrats announced last week they want to write a follow-up to…
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From the GW Regulatory Resources Center: Revising Regulatory Review: Expert Insights on the Biden Administration’s Guidelines for Regulatory AnalysisTue, 9 May, 2023 10:30am – 3:00pm Please join the GW Regulatory Studies Center and the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis for a timely discussion of recent changes to regulatory practices and analysis. In April, the White House…
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They'll go after you if you call them predatory. From Retraction Watch: A 2021 article that found journals from the open-access publisher MDPI had characteristics of predatory journals has been retracted and replaced with a version that softens its conclusions about the company. MDPI is still not satisfied, however. The article, “Journal citation reports and…
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Just gonna drop this here for those who need a reminder which approaches have the greatest potential for net emissions reductions… from that controversial source, the IPCC (AR6 WG3 2022). pic.twitter.com/CcX8DTkx3x — Dr. Julia K. Baum (@baumlab) May 7, 2023 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
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Feel free to promote far and wide. Intended for a non-expert audience (my goal is to get a spot in the sequel to this blockbuster). If you don't like QR codes, you can register here.
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Feel free to promote far and wide. Intended for a non-expert audience (my goal is to get a spot in the sequel to this blockbuster). If you don't like QR codes, you can register here.
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I teach an online MBA managerial economics class and try to inject environmental content as much as I can (after all, we have the #1 ranked sustainable MBA program in NC). I'm terrible at game theory but I think I have found a WSJ article that helps (Tesla’s Price Cuts Are Roiling the Car Market): …
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