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in the first decade. The boom has been accompanied by concerns about negative externalities, including impacts to air … market impacts and positive externalities, providing back-of-the-envelope estimates of their magnitude. The paper also … summarizes the current science and economics literatures on negative externalities. We conclude that the likely scope of economic …
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Natural gas extracted form shale reached record production totals in 2015 in the United States and the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts natural gas production will continue to increase. Wastes from shale gas extraction can contain the radioactive isotopes radium-226 (Ra-226)...
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The most prevalent and perhaps most popular climate policies in the U.S. are Renewable PortfolioStandards (RPS) that mandate that renewables (e.g., wind and solar) produce a specifiedshare of electricity, yet little is known about their efficiency. Using the most comprehensivedata set ever...
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This paper aims at characterizing the conditions of wind power deployment in order to infer a carbon price level that would provide wind power with comparable advantage over fossil fuel technologies as effective wind support policies. The analysis is conducted on Danish data from 2000 to 2010,...
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of water pollution deriving from mismanaged drilling and fracturing, absence of adequate regulation framework and …
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of water pollution deriving from mismanaged drilling and fracturing, absence of adequate regulation framework and …
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