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Changing Hazards, Exposure, and Vulnerability in the Conterminous United States, 2020–2070

David N. Wear, Travis Warziniack, O’Dea, Claire and John Coulston

Consideration of Environmental Justice in EPA’s Regulatory Analyses: A Review and Assessment

Emma DeAngeli, Richard D. Morgenstern, Burçin Ünel and Ann Wolverton

Accounting for Biodiversity Loss Raises the Social Cost of CO2

Jordan Wingenroth, Brian Prest, Lisa Rennels, Kevin Rennert, Frank Errickson and David Anthoff

Climate Clubs, Competitiveness Concerns, and Alternative Correction Measures

Ramiro Parrado and Francesco Bosello

From Catastrophe to Caution: The Effect of Wildfires on Community Hazard Mitigation Investments

Liao, Yanjun (Penny), Simon Sølvsten and Zach Whitlock

The Cost of Species Protection: The Land Market Impacts of the Endangered Species Act

Eyal G. Frank, Maximilian Auffhammer, David W. McLaughlin, Beia Spiller and David L. Sunding

Opportunities to Improve Department of Energy Community Benefits Plans to Deliver Regional Benefits from Federal Energy Investments

Brandon Holmes and Suzanne Russo

The Costs of Achieving Forest Resilience in California

David N. Wear, Matthew Wibbenmeyer and Yuqi Zhu

Integrating Variable Renewable Energy and Storage for Green Hydrogen Production

Jhih-Shyang Shih, Dallas Burtraw and Karen Palmer

Where Does the Marginal Methane Molecule Come From? Implications of LNG Exports for US Natural Gas Supply and Methane Emissions

Brian Prest

Finding the Right Fit: What Jobs Offer a Good Match for Fossil Fuel Workers’ Skills?

Daniel Raimi and Jacob Greenspon

Conservation and Distributional Consequences of Pricing Scarce Water During Droughts

Derek Wietelman, Casey Wichman and Daniel Brent

Policy Opportunities for Achieving Maryland’s Clean Energy Goals

Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer and Nicholas Roy

Power Flows, Part 2: Transmission Lowers US Generation Costs, But Generator Incentives Are Not Aligned

Dasom Ham, Owen Kay and Catherine Hausman

Emergency Department Visits and Temperature: Evidence from Mexico

Luis Sarmiento, Francesco Pietro Colelli and Filippo Pavanello

Statistical Properties of Social Discount Rate Paths in a Heterogeneous Dynamic Stochastic Model

Justin Kakeu, Eun-jin Kim and Rainer Hollerbach

Power Delayed: Economic Effects of Electricity Transmission and Generation Development Delays

Daniel Shawhan, McKenna Peplinski, Sally Robson, Ethan Russell, Ethan Ziegler and Karen Palmer

Clean Power Delayed: Effects of Infrastructure Delays on Health, Environment, and US Households

Daniel Shawhan, McKenna Peplinski, Sally Robson, Ethan Russell, Ethan Ziegler, Maya Domeshek and Karen Palmer

To Buy an Electric Vehicle or Not? A Bayesian Analysis of Consumer Intent in the United States

Nafisa Lohawala and Mohammad Arshad Rahman

The Effect of Air Purifiers in Schools

Jacopo Bonan, Francesco Granella, Stefania Renna, Luis Sarmiento and Massimo Tavoni

The Energy Transition for Oil- and Gas-Producing Tribal Nations: Assessing Options for Energy Development with the Southern Ute Indian Tribe

Daniel Raimi, Brian C. Prest and Alexandra Thompson

Recycling in a Globalized Economy

Eugénie Joltreau and Luis Sarmiento

Methane Abatement Costs in the Oil and Gas Industry: Survey and Synthesis

Joseph E. Aldy, Forest L. Reinhardt and Robert Stavins

Grid Connection Costs as a Barrier to Building New Generation: Evidence and Implications for Transmission Policy

Sarah Johnston, Yifei Liu and Chenyu Yang

Impact of Electric Tariffs on Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Charging Costs and Loads

Beia Spiller, Roulin Zhang, Elizabeth Stein, Eleftheria Kontou and Alexander Yoshizumi

Clean Steelmaking: Transitioning to a Low-Carbon Future

Jhih-Shyang Shih, Ethan Ziegler, Alan Krupnick, Marc Hafstead and Aaron Bergman

Cost Savings sans Allowance Trades? Evaluating the SO2 Emission Trading Program to Date

Dallas Burtraw

Temporal Reliability of Estimates from Contingent Valuation

Raymond Kopp, V. Smith, Robert Mitchell, Stanley Presser, Paul Ruud, Michael Hanemann, Jon Krosnick and Richard Carson

Green Giving: An Analysis of Contributions to Major U.S. Environmental Groups

Jerrell Richer

Should 'State of the Art' Safety Be a Defense Against Liability?

James Boyd and Daniel Ingberman

Retroactive Liability and Future Risk: The Optimal Regulation of Underground Storage Tanks

James Boyd and Howard Kunreuther

Environmental Taxes: Dead or Alive?

Richard Morgenstern

"Second-Best" Adjustments to Externality Estimates in Electricity Planning with Competition

Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer and Alan Krupnick

Referendum Design and Contingent Valuation: The NOAA Panel's No-Vote Recommendation

Raymond Kopp, V. Smith, Robert Mitchell, Stanley Presser, Paul Ruud, Michael Hanemann, Jon Krosnick and Richard Carson

Analyzing the Economic Impact of Climate Change on Global Timber Markets

Roger Sedjo, Brent Sohngen, Robert Mendelsohn and Kenneth Lyon

Pluralism and Regulatory Failure: When Should Takings Trigger Compensation?

Timothy Brennan and James Boyd

Distributional Impacts of an Environmental Tax Shift: The Case of Motor Vehicle Emissions Taxes

Margaret Walls and Jean Hanson

A Comparison of Timber Models for Use in Public Policy Analysis

Roger Sedjo and Brent Sohngen

Six Steps to a Healthier Ambient Ozone Policy

Alan Krupnick and Deirdre Farrell

Investments in Biodiversity Prospecting and Incentives for Conservation

Roger Sedjo and R. David Simpson

Timber Supply Model 96: A Global Timber Supply Model with a Pulpwood Component

Roger Sedjo and Kenneth Lyon

Does the Provision of Free Technical Information Really Influence Firm Behavior?

Richard Morgenstern

Electricity Restructuring and Regional Air Pollution

Dallas Burtraw and Karen Palmer

Environmental and Trade Policies: Some Methodological Lessons

V. Smith and Andres Espinosa

Was the NOAA Panel Correct About Contingent Valuation?

Raymond Kopp, V. Smith, Robert Mitchell, Stanley Presser, Paul Ruud, Michael Hanemann, Jon Krosnick, Michael Conaway, Kerry Martin and Richard Carson

Thresholds for Carcinogens: A Review of the Relevant Science and It's Implications for Regulatory Policy

James Wilson

Cross-Border Environmental Management and the Informal Sector: The Ciudad Juarez Brickmakers' Project

Allen Blackman and Geoffrey Bannister

Cleaning Up the Nuclear Weapons Complex: Exploring New Approaches

Katherine Probst, Carolyn Pilling and Karen Turner Dunn

Banking on "Green Money:" Are Environmental Financial Responsibility Rules Fulfilling Their Promise?

James Boyd

Valuation of Biodiversity for Use in New Product Research in a Model of Sequential Search

Roger Sedjo and R. David Simpson