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Important new discussion paper from a star-studded cast of environmental and resource economists*… …on the need for the environmental economics discipline to take better care in considering the systemic issues of race and justice in our research published by Resources for the Future: Our paper argues that systemic racism is such a fundamental force in…
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While teaching emissions control policies this last week to my undergraduates, I revisited my signature of the Economists’ Statement on Carbon Dividends (now signed by over 3600 economists). It’s been four years since the origin of the statement, and despite it being the most agreed-upon policy statement in the history of economics, no federal greenhouse…
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Last week Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin insulted climate activist and Time Person of the Year Greta Thunberg by claiming that she shouldn't talk about climate policy before studying economics and college. When asked about her suggestion for public divestment from fossil fuel companies, Mnuchin said: Is she the chief economist, or who is she? I'm…
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Last week's midterm elections were a mixed bag for environmental policy. Lots of initiatives went down in defeat, though some passed, and some pro-environmental candidates won. Most notably for us environmental economists, the state of Washington failed to pass a carbon tax initiative, which would have made them the only place in the US where…
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If you want to build a new home in California, you will have to build one with rooftop solar, according to a new mandate from the California Energy Commission. The solar rules will apply to new single-family homes and new multi-family housing of three stories or fewer. Under the plan, builders who obtain construction permits…
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My state, Georgia, has created a Rural Development Council to address the issues facing rural Georgia. (For instance, access to health care is pretty bad.) The Council released its recommendations a while back, and among them is a plan to pay people to move to rural Georgia: To reverse the current population migration trend, the…
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