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Category: Deepwater Horizon blowout
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The most interesting part of this article is that they focused on economics instead of political science: Each July, many of the top economists in the world gather in Cambridge, Mass., at a conference hosted by the National Bureau of Economic Research. While the work they present comes in all shapes and sizes, from the…
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Here is the link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479714003326
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In the mail yesterday–get yours today (it will help our publisher recoup our whopping advance):
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Skip Sauer: The WSJ reports that Governor Phil Bryant is allocating $15 million from Mississippi’s share of BP oil spill damages to be invested in a minor league ballpark in Biloxi. The city itself has voted to issue $21 million in bonds backed by stadium revenues, but the deal apparently hinged on the state’s investment…
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Warning, blatant self-and-John-promotion ahead. So I was reading this CNN story this morning about the recent increase in bottlenose dolphin deaths on the east coast. The carcasses of dozens of the marine mammals, seven times more than normal, have been washing up on beaches this summer, and scientists are struggling for answers to the die-off.…
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Another crushing blow for free market environmentalism? Unless the Justice Department and BP reach a last-minute settlement, the British oil company will return to court on Monday to face tens of billions of dollars in civil claims from the 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico that could cripple the…
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Coincidentally, I plan to be in NOLA later thursday as well (emphasis added below): BP, the British oil company, said Thursday it would pay $4.5 billion in fines and other payments to the United States government and plead guilty to 14 criminal charges in connection with the giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico…
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Deadspin: On the same day payments to victims of the BP Gulf oil spill were cut off, celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse appeared on SportsCenter to promote the Gulf Coast Seafood Tourism Bash (brought to you by BP). A tourism festival with a marginal link to sports being promoted on ESPN is weird enough, but then…
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NPR: A law passed after the Exxon Valdez oil spill requires the government to assess the biological damage from big spills so fines can be fixed and damage paid for. The National Academy of Sciences has a report describing the methods and metrics of determining the “ecosystem services” that have been lost due to the…
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