Politics

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

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 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

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

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

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

Yesterday I spent 2 hours revising a final version of this paper so that we can say it is "forthcoming" in Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy. Here is Figure 1:

Here is what I accomplished (about 2 weeks ago)

If I hear 'woke' used as a slur one more time