Tag: Regulation
The oil industry says it might support a carbon tax –...
Richard Schmalensee, MIT Sloan School of Management and David Schoenbrod, New York Law School
The oil industry’s lobbying arm,...
To make the US auto fleet greener, increasing fuel efficiency matters...
John DeCicco, University of Michigan
President Biden has proposed ambitious goals for curbing climate change and investing in a cleaner U.S. economy. One critical sector...
5 years after Paris: How countries’ climate policies match up to...
Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines and Dolf Gielen, Colorado School of Mines
Saturday marks the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate agreement – the...
On environmental protection, Biden’s election will mean a 180-degree turn from...
Janet McCabe, Indiana University
The Trump administration has waged what I and many other legal experts view as an all-out assault on the nation’s environmental...
Delinquent electric bills from the pandemic are coming due – who...
Theodore J. Kury, University of Florida
The shutdowns and restrictions that governments have imposed to limit the spread of COVID-19 have made it hard for...
How Nigeria’s new competition law will benefit the economy – and...
Oluchukwu Precious Obioma, University of Nigeria
Competition laws protect consumers and create confidence in an economy. It’s a signal to investors and entrepreneurs that a...
Looser standards for showerheads could send a lot of water and...
Robert Glennon, University of Arizona
For more than 25 years, Congress has directed U.S. government agencies to set energy and water efficiency standards for many...
Routine gas flaring is wasteful, polluting and undermeasured
Gunnar W. Schade, Texas A&M University
If you’ve driven through an area where companies extract oil and gas from shale formations, you’ve probably seen...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
