Economy
If the WIllow Project is approved and fewer people know about it, are the environmental costs reduced?
One of the big problems of nonmarket valuation of projects that impact the environment is that the benefits and costs...
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Some bad economics at the Department of Energy
From E&E News (DOE: Major LNG project ‘would not increase’ CO2) from June 2022: A proposed liquefied natural gas project...
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Running the LA marathon is exhausting…
...I know because I watched my second oldest daughter run it on Sunday and she looked really tired at the...
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Last week I began a research project for @FoothillsOfNC
On the Monday of spring break I drove to Morganton, NC and visited Oak Hill Community Park and Forest: Located...
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Today’s example of how the critics of environmental regulations ignore the benefits: Clean Neighbor Rule
From the NYTimes (E.P.A. Tells Dozens of States to Clean Up Their Smokestacks): The Biden administration on Wednesday finalized a...
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Our article in the Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy’s “sizing up survey samples” symposium (?) is published online
This paper resulted from the BP/Deepwater Horizon damage assessment conducted for the state of Florida (Huffaker, Clouwer and Larkin 2012)....
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The NYT’s Willow article allows issue advocates to alternately assume perfectly elastic demand and supply
The decision to allow mining in Alaska is controversial (Biden Administration Expected to Move Ahead on a Major Oil Project...
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My SBCA slides stunk but I think I delivered on emphasizing a stated preference “robustness check”
I presented a paper at the SBCA meetings yesterday. The study was internally funded so I've been asked to present...
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I’m at the Society for Benefit Cost Analysis conference in DC
This is the first in-person SBCA conference since 2019 following a cancelled 2020 conference and online conferences in 2021 and...
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