Externalities

The Republican Nanny State

Ron Davis | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Senate Republicans, Republican Leadership, Nanny State, Externalities, House Republicans, Republicans, Subsidies, Politics News
Ron Davis

Republicans who support subsidies should stop their mass-manipulation. Rather than hiding behind hypocritical pro-market rhetoric, it is time to admit they have embraced their very own entitlement-boom that rivals the dreams of any European welfarist.

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Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation

Robert Stavins | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Market-Based Environmental Policies, Efficiency, Environmental Policy, Economic Policy, Distributional Analysis, Environmental Economics, Cost-Effectiveness, Politics, Climate Change Policy, Office of Management and Budget, Market Failure, Regulation, Positive Political Economy and Tagged Acid Rain, Obama Administration, SO2 Allowance Trading, Global Climate Policy, Externalities, Waxman-Markey Legislation, U.S. Senate, Energy Policy, Energy Economics, Cap-and-Trade, Environmental Politics, U.S. House of Representatives, Green News
Robert Stavins

In 2009, the U.S. Congress considered but ultimately failed to enact legislation aimed at limiting U.S. greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. The bill unde...

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Economics of the Environment

Robert Stavins | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Market-Based Environmental Policies, Common Property Resources, Environmental Policy, Economic Policy, Forest Policy, Free Rider Problem, Distributional Analysis, Environmental Economics, Cost-Effectiveness, Fisheries Policy, Climate Change Policy, Office of Management and Budget, Regulation, Obama Administration, Information Problems, Global Climate Policy, China, Distributional Equity, California, Linkage of Cap-and-Trade Systems, Environmental Politics, Cap-and-Trade, Kyoto Protocol, Natural Resource Economics, Revenue-Neutral Taxes, Korea, Import Allowance Requirement, Water Policy and Tagged Australia, Efficiency, Natural Resource Policy, Politics, Positive Political Economy, Benefit-Cost Analysis, Mexico, Market Failure, Economic Stimulus Policy, European Union, Corporate Social Responsibility, Brazil, Externalities, Japan, Sulfur Dioxide, Energy Policy, Energy Economics, Public Goods, India, Economic Valuation, Green News
Robert Stavins

The Sixth Edition of Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings has just been published by W. W. Norton & Company of New York and London. Throug...

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Common Sense Policy

Doug Demeo | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Clean Technologies, Campaign for Congress, 21st Century, Jobs Creation, Pollution Costs, Economy That Works for Everyone, Occupy Wall Street, Externalities, Common Sense, Politics News
Doug Demeo

People want government to address our disparities in more honest ways. They want better response to our nation's concerns, beginning with fair and effective economic policy. Common sense policy.

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World on the Edge

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earth Policy Institute, Free Market, Saving Civilization, Externalities, Peak Oil, Lester Brown, Climate Change, Poverty, Global Economic Crisis, Books News
Craig K. Comstock

One of the attractive habits in American civilization is to ask: well, what's your plan? In his recent book World on the Edge, Lester Brown offers one.

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Green News Report: October 26, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop, Inhofe, 350.Org, United Kingdom, 2010 Elections, Food Crisis, Epa, Renewable Energy, Obama Administration, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Coal, Water Crisis, Offshore Drilling, Bob Dudley, Drought, Haiti Earthquake, Indonesia, Big Oil, Climate Science, Elections 2010, George Mason University, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Solar Power, Global Warming, Interior Department, Bp, Energy, Environmentalists, Externalities, Energy Efficiency, Senate, Tsunami, Carbon Tax, BRAD BLOG, Water, Green News, Cholera, Climate Legislation, Glenn Beck, BP Oil Spill, China, Volcano, Dr. Wegmann, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Cholera ou...

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Rage Against the Machine: Why We Should Be Skeptical About Standardized Test Scores

Justin Snider | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Rhee, American Federation of Teachers, Arne Duncan, Randi Weingarten, Rage Against the Machine, Michael Bloomberg, Externalities, Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama, New York Daily News, Mayoral Control, Campbell's Law, Joel Klein, New York Times, Standardized Testing, Naep, Politics News
Justin Snider

The educational decisions now made in part on standardized test scores are neither few nor inconsequential. This is hardly about who gets a sticker for a job well done.

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What is the Value of a Clean Future for the Gulf?

Erik Rothenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ursulaproject, Standards, Gulf Oil Spill, Social Risks, Healthy Gulf, Clean Energy, Environmental Risks, Externalities, True-Cost, Economic Risks, Economic Costs, Environmental Costs, True Cost, Social Costs, Environmental Clean-Up, Green News
Erik Rothenberg

According to estimates by the Flow Rate Technical Group, the team advising the government on the giant leak in the Gulf of Mexico, some 45-130 million...

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The Oil Spill Catastrophe: Biggest Ever? Not Close.

David Ropeik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Gulf of Mexico, Risk Perception, Catastrophe, Marine Environment, Plane Crash, Pollution, Externalities, Coral Reefs, Murder, Oil Spill, Sylvia Earle, Climate Change, Deepwater Horizon, Carbon Dioxide, Dead Zone, Overfishing, Chernobyl, Mississippi River, Industrial Accident, Bhopal, Green News
David Ropeik

The oil spill is a catastrophe, but risks that are catastrophic scare us more than those that are chronic -- even though in many cases, the chronic risks are far bigger threats.

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Group-think Caused the Market to Fail

Stan Sorscher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Invisible Hand, Group-Think, Externalities, Market Failure, Financial Engineering, Business News
Stan Sorscher

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

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Dear Vinod Khosla and Tom Friedman: No Amount of Sequestration Will Make Coal "Clean"

David Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thomas Friedman, Air Particulates, Coal Sludge, Mountaintop Removal, Water Pollution, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Mercury, Coal Ash, Air Pollution, Vinod Khosla, Coal, Externalities, Green News
David Roberts

Even if a coal-fired power plant sequestered 100 percent of its carbon pollution, it would not be "clean."

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Too Good To Be True?

Robert Stavins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Market-Based Environmental Policies, Common Property Resources, Free Rider Problem, Cost-Effectiveness, Benefit-Cost Analysis, Regulation, Global Climate Policy, Externalities, California, AB 32, Energy Efficiency, U.S. Senate, Waxman-Markey Legislation, Cap-and-Trade, Environmental Politics, U.S. House of Representatives, Green News
Robert Stavins

I had thought that arguments about massive "free lunches" in the energy efficiency and climate domain had long since been laid to rest. The debates in California (and some of the rhetoric in Washington) prove otherwise.

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