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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.
Podcast episode·Mar 4, 2025

The Future of U.S. Energy Policy Under Trump

via The Pie
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
Podcast episode·Aug 23, 2024

How did the near-extinction of vultures in India contribute to thousands of additional human deaths?

Eyal Frank explains how the vulture population in India fell from several million to just a few thousand, the sanitation shock this placed on the country when they were no longer available to dispose of dead cattle and how this...
Topics: Conservation Economics, Environment
Insight·Apr 10, 2024

Does Tackling Global Warming Require Global Reporting Rules?

EPIC Scholar Christian Leuz discusses an international framework for carbon reporting.
Topics: Climate Change, Climate Law & Policy, Energy Markets, Fossil Fuels
Podcast episode·Mar 28, 2024

Could Reporting Carbon Emissions Help Cut Them?

EPIC Scholar Christian Leuz explains how transparency can help fight environmental damage.
Topics: Energy Markets, Fossil Fuels
Insight·Dec 12, 2023

The Social Cost of Carbon

Why is estimating the social cost of carbon such an important task for researchers? EPIC's Director Michael Greenstone speaks with VoxDev.
Topics: Climate Change, Climate Economics, Climate Law & Policy, Energy Markets, Fossil Fuels
Podcast episode·Dec 12, 2023

Forecasting for Hunger

EPIC Scholar Amir Jina speaks with One Health Trust on how we could use El Niño forecasts to get ahead of some of the forces that cause child malnutrition.
Topics: Climate Change, Climate Science
Podcast episode·Feb 23, 2023

Scavenging for Answers: The Human Toll of Vulture Population Collapse

EPIC's Eyal Frank explores the social and economic cost in India, where a plummeting population of vultures may serve as a warning for the future.
Insight·Jan 2, 2023

Kim Wolske on Climate Behavior

In this episode, Ramanan Raghavendran speaks with Kim Wolske, a research associate professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy about the evolutions and applications of climate psychology. They discuss social norms around climate, barriers to low-carbon...
Topics: Climate Change, Climate Change and the U.S. Economic Future, Climate Science, Energy Markets
Insight·Dec 1, 2022

Michael Greenstone on Economics and Environmental Policy

On today’s episode of Free Range, Livermore is joined by Michael Greenstone, the Milton Freedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the Director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. He served as the Chief Economist for...