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As the debate about California-to-Texas migration pits low-cost, anti-regulation Texas against higher-income, socially liberal California, San Francisco Chronicle cites [...]

“All evidence suggests a business as usual scenario where we don’t rapidly scale up our efforts to get fuels out of the forest, we’re going to see a lot more extreme wildfire[...]"

As unrest puts some of the world's most vulnerable to the test, Marshall Burke discusses how #climatechange acts as “a finger on the scale that makes underlying conflict worse.”

Knowledge on the impact of climate change on our lives is growing each day. SIEPR's Charles Kolstad discusses the variables entering estimates of climate damage [...]

2021's record-setting summer of heatwaves, drought, wildfires, floods and hurricanes is forcing many to confront the realities of clime change [...]

Lawrence Goulder addresses environmental justice concerns and makes the that "a carbon tax is inherently progressive, narrowing the income gap between rich and poor households."

SIEPR Senior Fellow Frank Wolak contends there are ways for Texas to improve its power system without abandoning its underlying market structure.

Daniel Ho and his colleagues at ��ɫApp's RegLab show how the use of machine learning could benefit a U.S. EPA initiative to reduce violations of the Clean Water Act.

"If Texas is already straining, think about all the strain on the horizon," SIEPR Director Mark Duggan says.

In this news story on his research on the cost of wildfires, SIEPR’s Marshall Burke describes how catastrophic fires are visible outcomes of climate change.

Research on the cost of wildfires by SIEPR's Marshall Burke and his colleagues — as detailed in their SIEPR Policy Brief — are highlighted in The Economist.

Without federal leadership on climate change, large fires are likely to only get worse over the long run, warns Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke.

A worrisome global scenario draws on a study by Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke on the effect of climate change on economic inequality.

Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke estimates smoke exposure has likely caused 1,000 to 3,000 excess deaths and an additional 5,000 emergency room visits in California in the last month.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Frank Wolak says California could open up its electricity to retail competition. But political dynamics make that an unrealistic option right now, he says.

When rolling blackouts darkened parts of California this month, SIEPR Senior Fellow Frank Wolak had a painful sense of déjà vu [...]

SIEPR Senior Fellow Frank Wolak, who studies electricity markets, said the move to close the power market won’t prevent blackouts.

“A key next step, I think, is finding out explicitly how close you need to be to a well for it to cause harm,” says SIEPR Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke.

Air pollution reductions in China—associated with the economic slowdown caused by the pandemic—saved as many lives as COVID-19 has taken there, based Marshall Burke's estimates.