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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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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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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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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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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Dr. John Parsons joins the Global Markets Advisory Committee of the CFTC
CEEPR’s Executive Director, Dr. John Parsons, was recently appointed to the Global Markets Advisory Committee of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The CFTC is the US government agency responsible for supervising most derivatives trading in the US, including the energy and agriculture commodity derivatives markets.
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