Energy and Environment
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Knowledge on the impact of climate change on our lives is growing each day. SIEPR's Charles Kolstad discusses the variables entering estimates of climate damage [...]
August 12, 2021
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2021's record-setting summer of heatwaves, drought, wildfires, floods and hurricanes is forcing many to confront the realities of clime change [...]
July 18, 2021
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SIEPR seeks Director of Partnerships
SIEPR's new Director of Partnerships will play an instrumental role in working with external groups and organizations to engage our community of faculty, visitors, students [...]
May 20, 2021
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Lawrence Goulder addresses environmental justice concerns and makes the that "a carbon tax is inherently progressive, narrowing the income gap between rich and poor households."
April 28, 2021
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SIEPR Senior Fellow Frank Wolak contends there are ways for Texas to improve its power system without abandoning its underlying market structure.
March 09, 2021
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Daniel Ho and his colleagues at 成人大片's RegLab show how the use of machine learning could benefit a U.S. EPA initiative to reduce violations of the Clean Water Act.
March 08, 2021
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"If Texas is already straining, think about all the strain on the horizon," SIEPR Director Mark Duggan says.
February 20, 2021
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In this news story on his research on the cost of wildfires, SIEPR鈥檚 Marshall Burke describes how catastrophic fires are visible outcomes of climate change.
January 11, 2021
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Trailblazing economist and presidential adviser Edward Lazear dies at 72
The SIEPR senior fellow founded the field of personnel economics.
November 24, 2020
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Research on the cost of wildfires by SIEPR's Marshall Burke and his colleagues 鈥 as detailed in their SIEPR Policy Brief 鈥 are highlighted in The Economist.
October 14, 2020
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Without federal leadership on climate change, large fires are likely to only get worse over the long run, warns Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke.
October 09, 2020
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A worrisome global scenario draws on a study by Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke on the effect of climate change on economic inequality.
October 05, 2020
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Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke estimates smoke exposure has likely caused 1,000 to 3,000 excess deaths and an additional 5,000 emergency room visits in California in the last month.
September 19, 2020
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SIEPR Senior Fellow Frank Wolak says California could open up its electricity to retail competition. But political dynamics make that an unrealistic option right now, he says.
September 18, 2020
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When rolling blackouts darkened parts of California this month, SIEPR Senior Fellow Frank Wolak had a painful sense of d茅j脿 vu [...]
August 23, 2020
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SIEPR Senior Fellow Frank Wolak, who studies electricity markets, said the move to close the power market won鈥檛 prevent blackouts.
August 20, 2020
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鈥淎 key next step, I think, is finding out explicitly how close you need to be to a well for it to cause harm,鈥 says SIEPR Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke.
July 22, 2020
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Air pollution reductions in China鈥攁ssociated with the economic slowdown caused by the pandemic鈥攕aved as many lives as COVID-19 has taken there, based Marshall Burke's estimates.
May 13, 2020
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Understanding how global conditions might affect crop harvests and food supply chains is essential to finding solutions, according to SIEPR Senior Fellow David Lobell.
May 05, 2020
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Pandemic-related shutdowns in China led to reductions in pollution that saved the lives of many children and elderly adults, according to an analysis done by Marshall Burke.
April 02, 2020