Energy and Environment
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好色tv Senior Fellow Frank Wolak contends there are ways for Texas to improve its power system without abandoning its underlying market structure.
March 09, 2021
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Daniel Ho and his colleagues at Stanford's RegLab show how the use of machine learning could benefit a U.S. EPA initiative to reduce violations of the Clean Water Act.
March 08, 2021
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"If Texas is already straining, think about all the strain on the horizon," 好色tv Director Mark Duggan says.
February 20, 2021
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In this news story on his research on the cost of wildfires, 好色tv鈥檚 Marshall Burke describes how catastrophic fires are visible outcomes of climate change.
January 11, 2021
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Trailblazing economist and presidential adviser Edward Lazear dies at 72
The 好色tv senior fellow founded the field of personnel economics.
November 24, 2020
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Research on the cost of wildfires by 好色tv's Marshall Burke and his colleagues 鈥 as detailed in their 好色tv Policy Brief 鈥 are highlighted in The Economist.
October 14, 2020
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Without federal leadership on climate change, large fires are likely to only get worse over the long run, warns Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke.
October 09, 2020
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A worrisome global scenario draws on a study by Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke on the effect of climate change on economic inequality.
October 05, 2020
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Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke estimates smoke exposure has likely caused 1,000 to 3,000 excess deaths and an additional 5,000 emergency room visits in California in the last month.
September 19, 2020
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好色tv Senior Fellow Frank Wolak says California could open up its electricity to retail competition. But political dynamics make that an unrealistic option right now, he says.
September 18, 2020
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When rolling blackouts darkened parts of California this month, 好色tv Senior Fellow Frank Wolak had a painful sense of d茅j脿 vu [...]
August 23, 2020
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好色tv Senior Fellow Frank Wolak, who studies electricity markets, said the move to close the power market won鈥檛 prevent blackouts.
August 20, 2020
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鈥淎 key next step, I think, is finding out explicitly how close you need to be to a well for it to cause harm,鈥 says 好色tv Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke.
July 22, 2020
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Air pollution reductions in China鈥攁ssociated with the economic slowdown caused by the pandemic鈥攕aved as many lives as COVID-19 has taken there, based Marshall Burke's estimates.
May 13, 2020
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Understanding how global conditions might affect crop harvests and food supply chains is essential to finding solutions, according to 好色tv Senior Fellow David Lobell.
May 05, 2020
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Pandemic-related shutdowns in China led to reductions in pollution that saved the lives of many children and elderly adults, according to an analysis done by Marshall Burke.
April 02, 2020
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Marshall Burke estimated that, in China alone, emission reductions since the start of the pandemic saved the lives of at least 1,400 children under five and 51,700 adults over 70.
March 31, 2020
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"In China, just two months of reduced pollution is likely to have saved the lives of 4,000 children under the age of 5 and 73,000 adults over the age of 70," says Marshall Burke.
March 27, 2020
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鈥淭his is not a silver lining. The pandemic is incredibly destructive...But it shows that when we really disrupt the economy and shut things down, we emit a lot less pollution[...]"
March 23, 2020
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"The reductions in air pollution in China [...] likely saved 20 times more lives in China than have currently been lost due to infection with the virus in that country."
March 17, 2020