November 12, 2014

WGBH: CEEPR’s Knittel Explains Energy Price Fluctuations

CEEPR Director Christopher Knittel gives an interview on WGBH radio on energy prices…

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November 1, 2014

EPA Clean Power Plan: Cross-state Coordination Key to Cost-effective Mitigation

Last June, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule to limit carbon dioxide emissions from existing U.S. power plants. A new article published in Science magazine on 14 November 2014 and co-authored by CEEPR Director Christopher R. Knittel examines how key design features of the proposed rule might affect its environmental effectiveness, and offers recommendations to help minimize the economic costs of compliance.

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July 1, 2014

CEEPR Experts Weigh In on Proposed EPA Carbon Regulation

National media outlets turned to CEEPR experts for early reactions on the EPA’s proposed rulemaking on carbon emissions from existing power plants, issued in early June.

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June 3, 2014

CEEPR’s Greenstone Comments on Potential Downside of Natural Gas

CEEPR faculty affiliate Michael Greenstone was cited in a New York Times article on the potential impacts of abundant natural gas on the environment.

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May 1, 2014

Morris Adelman, CEEPR Faculty Affiliate since its Founding in 1977, Passes Away at 96

Morris Albert Adelman, a giant in the field of energy economics and a faculty member in the MIT Department of Economics for 40 years, died on May 8 at the age of 96.

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April 24, 2014

Calculating the Costs of Pollution

In a column in the Los Angeles Times, CEEPR faculty Michael Greenstone, with Francesca Dominici and Cass Sunstein of Harvard University commented on the recent decision by a US Court of Appeals over the EPA

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