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Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND, and M.Phil. Student, Pardee RAND Graduate School
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Report
Feb 23, 2011
This paper explores how much British citizens might be willing to pay for carbon emissions reduction, and the implication of this for climate change policies.
Journal Article
Feb 3, 2011
There is no statistically significant evidence that the Mexico City smoke-free law had a negative impact on restaurants' income, employees' wages and levels of employment.
News Release
Nov 15, 2010
To break the impasse over how to deal with spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear power plants, policymakers should focus on how various waste management strategies address societal priorities related to nuclear energy.
Testimony
Nov 8, 2010
Testimony presented before the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future on November 15, 2010.
Nov 5, 2010
The United States has yet to implement a strategy for managing spent nuclear fuel. This book examines technical and institutional approaches to spent fuel management and highlights policy implications of pursuing alternative strategies.
May 7, 2010
The National Environmental Performance Track program sought to encourage facilities to improve their environmental performance. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should continue to find ways to enhance traditional regulatory approaches.
Apr 3, 2009
This paper develops a framework for evaluating U.S. greenhouse gas-mitigation policy balancing several criteria, beyond just cost-effectiveness, to reflect institutional and political realities and the policies' effects on producers and consumers.
Jan 1, 2000
Estimates the number of PRPs that would be released and the cleanup costs that would be transferred to the Fund by recent proposals.
Research Brief
Provides information about proposals to exempt small firms and small-volume contributors, including the number and proportion of business firms that would be released, the proposals' dollar costs, and their effect on firms that would remain liable.
Jan 1, 1999
This study examines whether reprocessing and plutonium recycle will make radioactive waste management more effective and economical.
The authors examine the process by which antitobacco laws and ordinances were implemented and enforced in seven states and nineteen localities.
Superfund liability may impose financial risk on investors and thereby increase firms' costs of capital.
