Some bad economics at the Department of Energy
From E&E News (DOE: Major LNG project ‘would not increase’ CO2) from June 2022: A proposed liquefied natural gas project in Alaska would not raise greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new federal environmental review that assumes LNG exports elsewhere will
Running the LA marathon is exhausting…
...I know because I watched my second oldest daughter run it on Sunday and she looked really tired at the end (Picture is at the start line at Dodger Stadium the day before the race).
Last week I began a research project for @FoothillsOfNC
On the Monday of spring break I drove to Morganton, NC and visited Oak Hill Community Park and Forest: Located 10 minutes from downtown Morganton, the park will be a hub for outdoor recreation, education, agriculture and archaeological exploration for Morganton
Today’s example of how the critics of environmental regulations ignore the benefits: Clean Neighbor Rule
From the NYTimes (E.P.A. Tells Dozens of States to Clean Up Their Smokestacks): The Biden administration on Wednesday finalized a rule forcing factories and power plants in 23 Western and Midwestern states to sharply cut smog-causing pollution that is released from
Our article in the Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy’s “sizing up survey samples” symposium (?) is published online
This paper resulted from the BP/Deepwater Horizon damage assessment conducted for the state of Florida (Huffaker, Clouwer and Larkin 2012). We used the Knowledge Networks (KN) internet panel for the sample (besides me, the authors are Andrew Ropicki, John Loomis,
The NYT’s Willow article allows issue advocates to alternately assume perfectly elastic demand and supply
The decision to allow mining in Alaska is controversial (Biden Administration Expected to Move Ahead on a Major Oil Project in Alaska): In one of its most consequential climate decisions, the Biden administration is planning to greenlight an enormous $8 billion
My SBCA slides stunk but I think I delivered on emphasizing a stated preference “robustness check”
I presented a paper at the SBCA meetings yesterday. The study was internally funded so I've been asked to present on-campus a couple of times. I started out with Google Slides for some reason (we're a Google campus but that
I’m at the Society for Benefit Cost Analysis conference in DC
This is the first in-person SBCA conference since 2019 following a cancelled 2020 conference and online conferences in 2021 and 2022. I organized two sessions on environmental nonmarket valuation and, in my opinion, they turned out great. The sessions were put
When is the right time to measure economic damages from a disaster?
By now most know of the train derailment in East Palestine (pronounced pal-uh-steen), Ohio and the ensuing decision to burn the chemicals spilling from the train rather than wait for a potentially more disastrous--and perhaps more lethal--explosion. What is not