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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.

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.

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,...

EPIC scholar Ryan Kellogg weighs in on the future of American energy.

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...

Do habitat protections decrease home value or delay development?

If oil producers were to anticipate a long-run decline in demand for oil, how would they respond?

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...

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...

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...