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Overcoming five key challenges to make the energy transition a just labor transition - Nature Communications
Shifting rapidly to a low-emissions global economy could severely disrupt workers’ livelihoods and their communities, exacerbating inequalities and perpetuating injustice. In a Just Labor Transition, strategic policies prepare workers for new jobs, enable inclusive decision-making with meaningful participation of workers and their representatives (including labor unions and other collective organizations), and secure social license for change.
Power Delayed: The Hidden Costs of Postponing Power Projects, with McKenna Peplinski
Daniel Raimi: Hello, and welcome to Resources Radio, a weekly podcast from Resources for the Future (RFF). I'm your host, Daniel Raimi. Today, we talk with McKenna Peplinski, a senior research associate here at RFF. Along with a group of RFF colleagues, McKenna recently released a pair of working papers on the effects of delays in building power plants and electricity transmission lines.
The Climate Challenge Demands a Shift to Electric Vehicles-But How Will We Fund Road Infrastructure?
Addressing climate change and pollution requires a shift to electric vehicles and better fuel economy—but gasoline and diesel sales are key funding sources for US road infrastructure. How can we close that growing infrastructure funding gap? As researchers and policymakers have known for years, US transportation infrastructure spending is on an unsustainable path.
Illegal Mining in the Amazon, with Manuela Andreoni
The Full Transcript Daniel Raimi: Hello, and welcome to Resources Radio, a weekly podcast from Resources for the Future. I'm your host, Daniel Raimi. Today, we talk with Manuela Andreoni, a climate reporter at the New York Times. A few weeks ago, Manuela and several colleagues published a fascinating and disturbing piece in the Times on illegal mining in the Brazilian Amazon.
The Future of Energy Storage, with Dick Schmalensee
The Full Transcript Daniel Raimi: Hello, and welcome to Resources Radio, a weekly podcast from Resources for the Future (RFF). I’m your host, Daniel Raimi. Today we talk with Dick Schmalensee, Professor Emeritus of Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a former board chair here at RFF. Dick was a coauthor on MIT’s recent Future of Energy Storage study, which assesses the role that energy storage might play in a net-zero-emissions electricity system.
Understanding the Impacts of Product Packaging, with Boma Brown-West
The Full Transcript Daniel Raimi: Hello and welcome to Resources Radio, a weekly podcast from Resources for the Future. I'm your host, Daniel Raimi. Today we talk with Boma Brown-West, director of consumer health at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Boma works on a wide range of issues related to the safety of consumer products, and in today's episode she'll help us understand some of the risks associated with packaging.
Fighting for Environmental Fairness in San Antonio, with Char Miller
The Full Transcript Daniel Raimi: Hello, and welcome to Resources Radio, a weekly podcast from Resources for the Future. I'm your host, Daniel Raimi. This week, we talk with Char Miller, the W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History at Pomona College, and a senior fellow at the Pinchot Institute for Conservation. Char has recently published a new book called West Side Rising: How San Antonio's 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement.
How Much Do Fine Particulates Matter for Public Health?, with Inês Azevedo
In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Inês Azevedo, an associate professor of energy resources engineering at Stanford University and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment. Azevedo elaborates on her research, which recently has explored the public health and regional consequences of particulate matter pollution.
Two Paths to 1.5°C: Will We Take Either One?
Two major projections for the trajectory of global energy use, which assume that temperature increases are stabilized at 1.5 degrees Celsius, make vastly different estimates about future energy consumption. This week, the US Energy Information Administration is releasing its International Energy Outlook, one of the benchmark long-term energy outlooks that generate headlines each year.
Illinois’s Illuminating and Ambitious Power Plan, with Gilbert Michaud
In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Gilbert Michaud, an assistant professor of environmental policy at Loyola University Chicago. Michaud explores key provisions in the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA), landmark legislation that recently became law in Illinois.
Bridging the Data Gap in Oil and Gas Methane Emissions, with Arvind Ravikumar
In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Arvind Ravikumar, a professor at the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Ravikumar describes the challenge of reducing methane emissions from oil and gas production, given that the sources of emissions can be diverse and that systems for monitoring methane leaks can be improved.
Financing the Energy Transition around the World, with Afsaneh Becshloss
The Full Transcript Daniel Raimi: Hello and welcome to Resources Radio, a weekly podcast from Resources for the Future. I'm your host, Daniel Raimi. Today we talk with Afsaneh Beschloss, founder and CEO of the RockCreek Group. Before founding RockCreek, Afsaneh worked with the World Bank and other financial institutions to develop energy projects around the world.
The Highs and Lows of Fracking in Rural America, with Colin Jerolmack
The Full Transcript Daniel Raimi: Hello, and welcome to Resources Radio, a weekly podcast from Resources for the Future. I'm your host, Daniel Raimi. Today we talk with Colin Jerolmack, professor of sociology and environmental studies at New York University. Colin recently published Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town, which—for my money—is one of the very best books on the shale revolution written to date.
Supporting Communities with the Build Back Better Act
A bipartisan bill passed the Senate last month, with major implications for US infrastructure. Now, the Senate and House are engaging in a delicate dance around a reconciliation bill that will determine the federal budget and allocate major funds for US infrastructure and other priorities.
Cracking the Case of the Vanishing Air Pollution Data, with Eric Zou
Notable Quotes Opportunities to adjust behavior on air monitoring days: “The Environmental Protection Agency—the government agency who oversees [air quality monitoring]—publishes this calendar that tells state and local governments and the polluters, ‘These are the days that we’re going to do the monitoring.’ The information is in the public domain … You might wonder whether that creates opportunity and incentive for people to behave strategically in response to that rule.” (7:51) Local...
The INVEST in America Act: A Modest First Step to Addressing the Orphaned Wells Problem
This week, the Senate passed the historic INVEST in America Act, which authorizes spending of more than $1 trillion over ten years to address a wide range of infrastructure needs. In this blog post, I’d like to zoom in on the 0.5 percent of spending (which amounts to around $5 billion) that is dedicated to addressing orphaned oil and gas wells.
Wyoming’s Energy Economy in Transition, with Robert Godby
In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Robert Godby, an associate professor of economics at the University of Wyoming. Godby describes Wyoming’s long history of energy production before expounding on two major recent shifts in energy demand that have created challenges for the state: a precipitous decline in the demand for coal, and the development of fracking as a cheaper method of extracting natural gas.
Managing Wildfires to Combat Climate Change, with David Wear
In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with RFF Nonresident Senior Fellow David Wear, who recently published an issue brief about how provisions related to wildfire management on federal lands in Senator Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) Energy Infrastructure Act—specifically, methods of clearing the forest undergrowth, collectively called “forest fuel treatments”—could significantly reduce forest carbon emissions due to wildfires.
Decommissioning Orphaned and Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells: New Estimates and Cost Drivers
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Integrating the Real World into Climate Policy Models, with Wei Peng
The Full Transcript Daniel Raimi: Hello and welcome to Resources Radio, a weekly podcast from Resources for the Future. I'm your host, Daniel Raimi. This week, we talk with Wei Peng, assistant professor of international affairs and civil and environmental engineering at Penn State University. Professor Peng is the first author on a recent paper published in Nature that makes recommendations on how integrated assessment models, or IAMs, can be more useful in climate policy.
Do Carbon Taxes Hurt the Economy?, with Gilbert Metcalf
Notable Quotes Even a relatively low carbon price can curb emissions: “What do we need to do to cut emissions by 35 percent? What’s the tax rate that we need to do that? … [The US Department of the Treasury in 2016] found that a carbon tax in the $50 to $70 range would collect a gross revenue of 1.1 to 1.2 percent of GDP. We find that the tax-revenue-to-GDP ratio would be only roughly a fifth of that—about 0.2 percent—which is much lower.
The Dollar Value of Energy Innovation, with Daniel Shawhan
Notable Quotes: Advanced energy is a major topic on Capitol Hill: “Congress might increase funding for these advanced energy technologies [as] part of a stimulus, possibly as part of the infrastructure legislation that’s being negotiated between Democrats and Republicans right now … It’s a really big, important decision year for this RD&D, and our purpose is to provide reliable, rigorous analysis that policymakers all across the political spectrum can trust to help them decide what positions...
Experiments in Sustainable Development, with Kelsey Jack
Notable Quotes Environmental infrastructure in developing nations: “The poorer you are, the more vulnerable you tend to be to the environment that you live in, and the more dependent you tend to be on having good environmental quality around you. Yet, being able to afford good environmental quality is something we take for granted a lot of the time.
The Lowdown on High Power Prices, with Meredith Fowlie
In this episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Meredith Fowlie, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a faculty director at the Energy Institute at Haas. Fowlie contends that high electricity prices—an especially pronounced problem in her home state of California—disproportionately burden low-income households and discourage necessary electrification efforts.
Playing God with the Nature of the Future, with Elizabeth Kolbert
Notable Quotes People finding ways to fix past mistakes in the environment: “The book is about ways that we—humanity—have intervened in natural systems … sometimes consciously or purposefully, sometimes unconsciously and unwittingly.
How to Make Your Job Application Stand Out in the Energy Transition
Earlier this week, Rigzone presented insights about applying oil and gas skills, knowledge, and training to other energy sectors. Beth Bowen, president for The Americas with the global workforce provider Brunel (AMS: BRNL), has shared with Rigzone her top three pieces of advice for increasing one’s chances of standing out in the job market. Below are her tips: Demonstrate how your skills can be utilized to fill gaps through using strong examples.
Giving a Fair Shot to Energy Workers and Communities in Transition, with Wesley Look and Daniel Raimi
Notable Quotes Ensuring the clean energy transition is fair and equitable: “We want to be thinking about ways to look at costs and benefits, but we especially want to be thinking about the distribution and the fairness of how those costs are borne by different segments of society. If I am a coal worker, let’s say my entire community’s economy is based around coal mining as an anchor institution.
Plugging Orphaned Oil and Gas Wells: What We Know and Need to Know
Our current best estimates for the number of abandoned and orphaned gas wells fall far below the true inventory, yet the stakes for the public are high: an improved understanding of these wells could help create jobs, reduce methane emissions, and improve public health. New research from RFF Fellow Daniel Raimi and Columbia University coauthors describes how a federal well plugging effort can help achieve these goals, particularly if policymakers have access to the information they need.
Plugging Orphaned Oil and Gas Wells: What We Know and Need to Know
Our current best estimates for the number of abandoned and orphaned gas wells fall far below the true inventory, yet the stakes for the public are high: an improved understanding of these wells could help create jobs, reduce methane emissions, and improve public health. New research from RFF Fellow Daniel Raimi and Columbia University coauthors describes how a federal well plugging effort can help achieve these goals, particularly if policymakers have access to the information they need.
Shedding Light on Electricity Blackouts, with Severin Borenstein
Notable Quotes The power grid is not prepared for climate change: “One of the things that is happening—and we’ve seen this both in California, where we had an unprecedented heat wave, and in Texas, where we’re seeing an extreme cold—is that more extreme weather is creating larger problems in the system supplying the electricity.
Assessing the Promise and Peril of Wood Pellet Products, with Francisco X. Aguilar
The Full Transcript Daniel Raimi: Hello, and welcome to Resources Radio, a weekly podcast from Resources for the Future. I'm your host, Daniel Raimi. Today we talk with Francisco Aguilar, professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences’s Department of Forest Economics and leader of the Team of Specialists on Wood Energy at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.
Can the Oil and Gas Industry Lead on Climate?, with Tisha Schuller
Notable Quotes Fossil fuel companies need to contend with activism as an economic force: “Environmental activism is now completely influencing mainstream business risk. I encourage companies to stop thinking about [activism] in terms of political identity and start thinking about environmental activism as a hurricane off the coast. When you prepare your facilities for an incoming hurricane, you don’t ask yourself if you believe it’s coming or not.
The Economics of Environmental Justice, with Samuel Stolper and Catherine Hausman
The Full Transcript Daniel Raimi: Hello and welcome to Resources Radio, a weekly podcast from Resources for the Future. I'm your host, Daniel Raimi.
Gambling on the Growth of Global Emissions, with Ken Caldeira and Ted Nordhaus
Notable Quotes The case for an established peak in emissions: “Most analyses had emissions peaking at some point in the middle of this coming decade, and that was all prior to the pandemic. So then, you get a big economic shock, a big drop in emissions, and the likelihood is that it's going to take a couple of years for the economy to fully bounce back.
Tracing the Historical Arc of US Climate Policy, with David Hawkins
Notable Quotes Congress considered climate decades ago but didn’t act quickly enough: “In 1963, the Senate committee that was drafting what became the Clean Air Act of 1963 wrote a report about air pollution and labeled CO₂ as an air pollutant that could disrupt the climate. That’s the first congressional recognition that I’m aware of.
Assessing the Promise and Peril of Wood Pellet Products, with Francisco X. Aguilar
The Full Transcript Daniel Raimi: Hello, and welcome to Resources Radio, a weekly podcast from Resources for the Future. I'm your host, Daniel Raimi. Today we talk with Francisco Aguilar, professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences’s Department of Forest Economics and leader of the Team of Specialists on Wood Energy at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.
Learning Lessons for Lion Conservation in West Africa, with Nyeema Harris
Notable Quotes Availability of prey drives geographic distribution of lions: “Prey is what’s driving how lions specifically are using space—you’ve got to follow your food, right? … Even though we went in with the idea of expecting that the national parks would support a larger lion population or a greater diversity of wildlife, [which would] support a greater use of the park by the lions, that's not what we found.
Rare Earths 101: Digging Up the Facts, with Jordy Lee
The Full Transcript Daniel Raimi: Hello, and welcome to Resources Radio, a weekly podcast from Resources for the Future. I'm your host, Daniel Raimi. This week, we talked with Jordy Lee, senior research associate at the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines. Jordy will give us answers to some key questions about rare earth minerals, which are used widely in clean energy technologies, including wind, solar and energy storage.
Jobs, Equity, and Efficiency: Reconciling Priorities in a Transition to a Clean Energy Economy
An equitable transition to a low-emissions economy will require difficult decisions about which policies can best achieve multiple goals. In the years ahead, policymakers will seek to find policies that can serve three masters in addition to reducing emissions: supporting jobs, reducing inequities, and limiting policy costs. Clean energy is surging in the United States and around the world.
What’s at the Top of Your Stack?
A recurring segment on Resources Radio is “Top of the Stack,” when podcast hosts Daniel Raimi and Kristin Hayes ask each guest what is on the top of their literal or metaphorical reading stack. See if some of their book recommendations can carry you safely through this year’s election cycle and our first COVID-19/flu season.
Evaluating and Enhancing Corporate Climate Action, with Mark Tercek
Notable Quotes Treating nature as a financial asset: “How can we get society to understand that nature is such a valuable asset that does all these wonderful things for us? It’s the source of our food, our clean water, clean air to breathe, but we don’t invest enough in this asset … One [strategy] is to champion the opportunity to invest in restoration of nature, with the goal of drawing carbon out of the atmosphere. We know that ecosystems can do that.
Space Resources: Exploring the Final Frontier, with Alex Gilbert
The Full Transcript Daniel Raimi: Hello, and welcome to Resources Radio, a weekly podcast from Resources for the Future. I'm your host, Daniel Raimi. This week, we learn about space mining with Alex Gilbert, a fellow at the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines. Alex will help us understand the fundamentals of space mining, including key questions like: what resources are people interested in mining? What technologies will be needed to extract those resources?
Pricing Climate Risk in the Markets, with Robert Litterman
This week, host Daniel Raimi talks with Robert Litterman, a founding partner at Kepos Capital, a board member at RFF, and chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee. Raimi and Litterman explore the uncertain but potentially seismic impacts of climate change on coastal real estate, electric utilities, and entire financial markets.
For a stronger, cleaner economy
September 9, 2020 By Daniel Raimi and Nathan Lemphers These are challenging times for the oil and gas industry. While volatility is no stranger to the sector, the bust of 2020 may signal the beginning of a new era, especially for high-cost producers. Global oil prices have plunged in response to a glut of supply and a historic drop in demand, driven by fears over COVID-19.
Can the Magic Glue of Cement Turn Green?, with Mahmoud Taha
Notable Quotes Environmental hazards of cement: “Cement production is actually known today to be one of the most highly polluting sources, in the sense of emissions of CO₂.
Understanding EPA’s Final Report on Hydraulic Fracturing
This week, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final report on the impacts of hydraulic fracturing (often referred to as “fracking”) on drinking water resources in the United States. In it, the agency describes the ways in which hydraulic fracturing, wastewater management, and other activities related to oil and gas production could potentially affect drinking water resources.
Bakken 2016: Managing a Downturn and Planning for an Uncertain Future
Western North Dakota is one of the most rural regions of the United States, and has experienced perhaps the most dramatic fiscal impacts of the shale revolution. Oil production from the Bakken and other “tight” formations peaked at more than 1.2 million barrels per day in late 2014, and impacts on city and county governments in the region is hard to overstate.
Neither Side Gets Its Science Right in Maryland Fracking Ban Debate
As Maryland weighs a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, two opinion pieces published in the Washington Post (available here and here) present diametrically opposed views on the topic. Although the two pieces argue that science is on their side, they each cherry pick from existing research, distorting the impacts of fracking, rather than provide solid evidence that can help inform Maryland residents and policymakers.
Managing Revenues through a Downturn in Texas’s Eagle Ford Shale
Compared with other major shale plays across the United States, the Eagle Ford shale in south Texas has experienced perhaps the most dramatic downturn in activity following the late 2014 collapse in oil prices. And unlike other major oil-producing regions of the United States, Eagle Ford has relatively little historical experience with the booms and busts that can come with an economy driven by oil and gas extraction (see Figure 1).
The Fracking Debate
Main Reviews Contents Excerpt Links Awards Over roughly the past decade, oil and gas production in the United States has surged dramatically—thanks largely to technological advances such as high-volume hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as “fracking.” This rapid increase has generated widespread debate, with proponents touting economic and energy-security benefits and opponents highlighting the environmental and social risks of increased oil and gas production.
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