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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

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

Accounting for Biodiversity Loss Raises the Social Cost of CO2

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

Climate Clubs, Competitiveness Concerns, and Alternative Correction Measures

Francesco Bosello and Ramiro Parrado

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

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

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

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

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

Suzanne Russo and Brandon Holmes

The Costs of Achieving Forest Resilience in California

Matthew Wibbenmeyer, Yuqi Zhu and David N. Wear

Integrating Variable Renewable Energy and Storage for Green Hydrogen Production

Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer and Jhih-Shyang Shih

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

Brian C. 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

Daniel A. Brent, Derek Wietelman and Casey Wichman

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

Owen Kay, Catherine Hausman and Dasom Ham

Emergency Department Visits and Temperature: Evidence from Mexico

Francesco Pietro Colelli, Filippo Pavanello and Luis Sarmiento

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

The Second-Best Use of Social Cost Estimates

Dallas Burtraw and Alan Krupnick

The Social Cost of Electricity: Do the Numbers Add Up?

Dallas Burtraw and Alan Krupnick

The Social Value of Using Biodiversity in New Pharmaceutical Product Research

R. David Simpson and Amy Craft

Who's in the Driver's Seat? Mobile Source Policy in the U.S. Federal System

Winston Harrington, Margaret Walls and Virginia McConnell

The Cost of Reducing Municipal Solid Waste

Karen Palmer, Margaret Walls and Hilary Sigman

The Role of Health Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Decision Making in Selected Countries: An Initial Survey

Janice Mazurek

The "Regulatory Compact" and Implicit Contracts: Should Stranded Costs Be Recoverable?

James Boyd

Stranded Costs, Takings, and the Law and Economics of Implicit Contracts

Timothy Brennan and James Boyd

Economic Values of Freshwater in the United States

Kenneth Frederick

Environmental Priorities for the District of Columbia: A Report to the Summit Fund

J. Clarence Davies and Nicole Darnall

The 1991 Lead/Copper Drinking Water Rule and the 1995 Decision Not to Revise the Arsenic Drinking Water Rule: Two Case Studies in EPA's Use of Science

Mark Powell