Energy and Environment

Marshall Burke, SIEPR senior fellow, tells the New York Times that leaving out estimates of the value of human lives saved in cost-benefit analyses for new air pollution rules is a mistake.

SIEPR's Neale Mahoney and Adam Shaw, writing in Time Magazine's World Economic Forum issue, call cost-of-living issues a worldwide problem and discuss how political leaders can respond.

A New York Times analysis of Manhattan's congestion pricing program has so far been a huge success cites research by SIEPR's Shoshana Vasserman and Hunt Allcott identifying some of the early impacts on travel speeds and air quality.

More Americans are dying from wildfire smoke than from traffic accidents, reports the Washington Post in covering a new Nature study from SIEPR Senior Fellow Marshall Burke.

SIEPR's Bård Harstad writes in a Financial Times op-ed about his research showing how Europe’s shift away from coal to natural gas could increase emissions over the long run.

A SIEPR wildfire conference at SIEPR convened academics, government officials, firefighters, and other experts to discuss the economic threat of wildfire. More via NBC News:

Newsweek reports on work by SIEPR’s Hunt Allcott that estimates electric car sales could fall 27% if consumers lose a $7,500 federal tax credit.

The Hill cites a recent op-ed co-written by incoming SIEPR Director Neale Mahoney about California's gasoline market failures.

A team of economists, including SIEPR's Hunt Allcott, has taken on a central component of the Inflation Reduction Act: the $7,500 tax credit for U.S.-made electric vehicles.