California has set ambitious goals for cutting carbon emissions and shifting to a clean energy economy. How will this strategy affect the state’s huge economy? An economist weighs the evidence.
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Critics say the Endangered Species Act does not work because only about 1 percent of protected species have officially “recovered.” Two biologists explain why recovery is so hard to define.
We may picture regulators tying businesses up in red tape, but research shows that many environmental regulators have collegial relationships with the companies they regulate.
If US Rep. Ryan Zinke of Montana is confirmed as interior secretary, he will face difficult choices about balancing extractive activities like energy production with conservation on public lands.
President Obama used an obscure 1953 law to bar offshore drilling in Arctic Alaska and along the Atlantic coast. Republicans and energy companies want to reverse the ban, but it will not be easy.
Economists have shown, using both theory and data, that uncertainty about U.S. environmental policies makes clean tech innovation less likely.
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Professor of Law Emeritus, Vermont Law & Graduate School
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Professor of Practice of Law, Indiana University
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Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for Environment and Public Lands and University Distinguished Professor, Boise State University
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Provost Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
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Associate Professor of History, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of Marine Science and Vice President for Science Applications, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
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Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Inequalities, Social Justice, and Policy, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Professor of History, University of Idaho
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Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia
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Professor of Forestry and Environmental Conservation (Forest Resource Management and Economics), Clemson University
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W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History, Pomona College
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Professor of Environmental Law, University of Maryland
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Dana and David Dornsife Professor of Psychology and Director of the Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
