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Op-Ed & Analysis·Jun 4, 2025

Can Tradable Pollution Permits Work in Developing Countries?

via Cato
A market for tradable pollution permits in India increased compliance with emissions restrictions, reduced particulate emissions, and made pollution abatement...
Op-Ed & Analysis·May 31, 2025

Clean water in India: Is delivering water a viable solution?

via VoxDev
An understudied approach to delivering clean water in rural India shows high take-up and substantial health and welfare benefits, offering...
Op-Ed & Analysis·May 6, 2025

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

via Scroll.in
Poor oversight in a ‘licence raj’ encourages violations. Market-based environmental regulation such as pollution taxes and trade markets could be...
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Op-Ed & Analysis·Sep 19, 2024

One of the World’s Biggest Health Risks Is a Philanthropic Blind Spot

EPIC Clean Air Program Director Christa Hasenkopf writes in the New York Times about pollution's threat to health and the...
Op-Ed & Analysis·Sep 11, 2024

Tracking Air Quality the Right Way

It is difficult to get a clear picture of global air-pollution levels because much of the ground-level data is outdated...
Op-Ed & Analysis·Sep 6, 2024

Poor air quality is shortening our lives — asking for open data can change that

Improving air quality is possible — but it relies on having good quality, open data that the public can access,...
Op-Ed & Analysis·Jul 29, 2024

Do California Farmers Respond to Electricity Prices?

EPIC's Fiona Burlig and co-authors Louis Preonas and Matt Woerman write on how new efforts to curb groundwater depletion will...
Op-Ed & Analysis·Jun 7, 2024

How combating air pollution can also help create a more equal world

Air pollution is as much an equity and justice issue as it is an environmental issue, writes Tanushree Ganguly for...
Op-Ed & Analysis·Apr 24, 2024

Using spatial integrated assessment models to understand the local and global economic impact of climate change

EPIC Scholar Esteban Rossi-Hansberg discusses recent advances in the development of spatial integrated assessment to analyse the economic impact of...