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Steve Cicala speaks about electricity consumption during COVID-19 lockdowns.

In this podcast, Cicala details how electricity demand can serve as a valuable—if incomplete—tool to assess the health of the economy and the outlook for recovering from a recession.

Luis Garicano interviews Michael Greenstone for 'Capitalism after the Coronavirus,' a series of conversations by the Spanish MEP with economists and social scientists about the situation after covid-19.

Coronavirus shutdowns have cut pollution, and that’s opened the door to a “giant, global environmental experiment” on health; Steve Cicala speaks on the potential to save more lives.

After a drastic decline this spring, global greenhouse gas emissions are now rebounding sharply as countries relax their coronavirus lockdowns and traffic surges back onto roads. Steve Cicala weighs in.

EPIC's analysis tracks the decline in electricity consumption in the Permian Basin.

“This unprecedented drop in demand is foreshadowing the grid of the future,” says Steve Cicala, Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy.

America’s air is cleaner as a result of the Covid-19 lockdown, and that’s likely to reduce the number of premature deaths caused by pollution, according to a new study.