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From NOAA Research News (One facility makes a big contribution to Salt Lake’s winter brown cloud): The 2.4 million people who live along Utah’s Wasatch Front experience some of the most severe winter particulate matter air pollution in the nation. Now, analysis of measurements taken during NOAA research flights in 2017 indicates that emissions from…
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During Covid one thing led to another and I agreed to develop an online course for ECO 2620 Introduction to Environmental and Resource Economics. Here is how I describe what happened on the course webpage: Some background: During the Covid-19 summer of 2020 the powers that be decided that this course would be a likely…
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From CNN (How the blare of a crypto mine woke up this Blue Ridge Mountain town): When Judy Stines first heard about cryptocurrency, “I always thought it was smoke and mirrors,” she said. “But if that’s what you want to invest in, you do you.” But then she heard the sound of crypto, a noise that neighbor Mike…
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From the WSJ ( Alexa, That Isn’t Elvis! New Music Shuffle Irks Amazon Prime Users): Dustin Bingham loves to play music when he cooks. Recently, he asked one of his eight Amazon Echo smart speakers to play Michael Bublé while he prepared some pasta. Sure enough, sounds of the Canadian crooner filled the kitchen, courtesy…
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Class starts on Tuesday (1/17) and the email should go out on Friday or Monday. Welcome to ECO 2620! This course is about environmental (air and water quality) and natural (oil, fish) resources. It is an economics course so the focus is on the efficient allocation of these resources. Efficiency is when the benefits minus…
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Yoram Bauman: This is the fifth such review I’ve been involved in and it is almost certainly the last review I’ll be doing, for the simple reason that the vast majority of textbooks now have excellent content on climate change! (If desired you can skip directly to the report card, or read on for some…
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Alden, Dave. "Experience with scripted role play in environmental economics." The Journal of Economic Education 30, no. 2 (1999): 127-132. Anderson, Soren T., and Michael D. Bates. "Hedonic prices and equilibrium sorting in housing markets: A classroom simulation." National Tax Journal 70, no. 1 (2017): 171-183. Anderson, Lisa R., and Sarah L. Stafford. "Choosing winners…
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From the WSJ Microeconomics Weekly Review: World’s Priciest Precious Metal Surges Amid Emissions Clampdown By Joe Wallace | January 23, 2020 Summary: Because of limited supplies and rising demand, the price of rhodium, a metal used to strip pollutants from automobile exhaust fumes, has surged in 2020. Rhodium is a byproduct of mining for platinum,…
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From the WSJ Micro Weekly Review (reviewed by Edward Scahill, University Of Scranton): Canada’s Oil Market Finds Outlet in U.S. Demand By Vipal Monga | September 12, 2019 Summary: An increase in the demand for dense crude oil from the U.S. and cuts in production ordered by its government has eased an oil glut in…
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Here is the description: The tools of environmental economics guide policymakers as they weigh development against nature, present against future, and certain benefits against uncertain consequences. The policies and research findings explained in this textbook are relevant to decisions made daily by individuals, firms, and governments. This textbook offers instructors and students a user-friendly, relevant,…
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