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Podcast episode·May 15, 2025

Valuing Access to Drinking Water in India, with Professor Fiona Burlig

via Resources for the Future
In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Fiona Burlig, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, about improving access to clean drinking water in India.
Op-Ed & Analysis·May 6, 2025

In the midst of an air pollution crisis, there’s another way India can better enforce emission rules

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Poor oversight in a ‘licence raj’ encourages violations. Market-based environmental regulation such as pollution taxes and trade markets could be better, writes Anant Sudarshan.
Research Highlights·Apr 15, 2025

Can Pollution Markets Work in Developing Countries? Experimental Evidence from India

By Michael Greenstone, Rohini Pande, Nicholas Ryan, and Anant Sudarshan Context Air pollution is one of India’s foremost public-health concerns, with the average person in India losing about 3.5 years of life expectancy. Policymakers have struggled to reduce industrial pollution,...
Podcast episode·Mar 4, 2025

The Future of U.S. Energy Policy Under Trump

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EPIC scholar Ryan Kellogg weighs in on the future of American energy.
Topics: Climate Change, Climate Economics, Climate Law & Policy, Electric Power, Energy Markets, Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy
Chart·Jan 21, 2025

Home Prices Increased In Communities Surrounding Protected Habitats

Wildlife populations have declined 68 percent over the past five decades, and climate change is only expected to exacerbate that trend. Yet, while studies have shown a clear link between the decline in wildlife species and human health (e.g. here...
Topics: Climate Change, Climate Economics, Conservation Economics, Environment
Research Highlight·Jan 13, 2025

The Cost of Species Protection: The Land Market Impacts of the Endangered Species Act

Do habitat protections decrease home value or delay development?
Topics: Conservation Economics, Environment
Research Highlight·Dec 2, 2024

The End of Oil

If oil producers were to anticipate a long-run decline in demand for oil, how would they respond?
Topics: Energy Markets, Fossil Fuels
Chart·Dec 2, 2024

Anticipating the End of Oil Leads Most Producers to Make Cuts

For the first time in roughly a century, oil’s dominance as a transportation fuel is under threat. Electric vehicles have become cheaper, and consumers are buying more of them. At the same time, climate policies are becoming more stringent and...
Topics: Energy Markets, Fossil Fuels
Chart·Nov 8, 2024

With More Policies Encouraging Consumers to Buy EVs Came a Threefold Increase in New EV Technology Patents

Electrifying the transportation sector is widely recognized as a critical strategy for reducing carbon emissions. Countries like the United States and China have set ambitious goals for electric vehicle (EV) adoption, targeting 50% and 40% of total vehicle sales to...
Topics: Energy Markets, Transportation
Chart·Oct 7, 2024

Air Pollution’s Threat to Health and the Tools to Combat It Remain Unequally Distributed Worldwide

Particulate air pollution (PM2.5) remains the world’s greatest external risk to human health, according to EPIC’s latest Air Quality Life Index report. Yet, the countries that are most impacted by air pollution lack the fundamental resources to combat it.  Asia...
Topics: Air Pollution, AQLI, Clean Air Program, Environment