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| | NEWS & NOTES | | Recipients of RFF Academic Awards | | Five fellowships and special internship awardees have been named by RFF to conduct environmental and energy research during the | | Newell to Head EIA | | Long-time RFF researcher Richard G. Newell was appointed by President Barack Obama on May 5 to become administrator of the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA). Newell joined RFF in 1997, where he focused on energy and climate policy, transportation, and air quality. In 2007, he became an associate professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, and also became an RFF University Fellow. He previously was a senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. Created by Congress in 1977, the EIA is part of the U.S. Department of Energy and provides unbiased energy statistics, analysis, and forecasts. | | Testimony: Symmetric Safety Valve and Carbon Market Volatility | Building market flexibility into climate change legislation could efficiently curb dramatic fluctuations in carbon prices, according to testimony delivered by Resources for the Future Senior Fellow Dallas Burtraw before the House Ways and Means Committee on March 26.
Burtraw pointed to the symmetric safety valve, a mechanism discussed in this recent paper.
| | Morgenstern Addresses Helsinki Commission | | In an appearance March 10 before the U.S. Helsinki Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe on the topic Green and Mean: Can the U.S. Economy Be Both Climate-Friendly and Competitive?, RFF Senior Fellow Richard Morgenstern discussed the impact of potential climate mitigation policies on carbon-intensive industries and possible remediation options. The session, held on Capitol Hill, was sponsored by the independent U.S. government agency created in 1976 to monitor human rights, democracy, and the rule of law among the 56 member nations of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. |
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| FEATURES | | Managing Ecosystems: A Role for Science in Federal Policy | | Shoring up the nation’s ecological preserves will require more input from biophysics in government decisionmaking. An RFF First Wednesday Seminar examines prospects for drawing on science to restore and protect vital ecosystems. Video and audio available. | | EPA’s Failed Experiment in Cooling Water Regulation | | In a May 11 commentary, Winston Harrington discusses an unsuccessful attempt by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to introduce more flexibility and cost-benefit considerations into a traditional technology-based regulation. | | Producing Energy from Farm Waste | | RFF researchers explored policy options to encourage production of electricity from agricultural waste. They point to market incentives to promote capture of methane from manure, thus enabling farms to generate power, reduce effluence, and provide climate and health benefits. | | Why We Need to Treat Nitrogen as a Systems Problem | | In this week's commentary, Andrew Manale provides an insightful discussion of the sources of reactive nitrogen, its environmental impacts, and why a comprehensive portfolio of policy approaches is needed to contain nitrogen pollution. | | Safety Valve, Price Collars and Banking and Borrowing | | Harrison Fell and Richard Morgenstern assess some of the leading options to manage costs in a cap-and-trade system and find potentially large efficiency gains. |
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