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Today, we welcome Al McGartland to the Institute for Policy Integrity as our new Economic Policy Director. McGartland served as the Director of the National Center for Environmental Economics at EPA until retiring from the agency this fall. Welcome, Al! 🎉 policyintegrity.org/news/press-r...

Clear and sensible piece on AI load growth and your electricity bill: energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/w...

Hey, look who got this year's Arthur H. Cole Prize for economic history! fordschool.umich.edu/news/2025/ha...

New coauthor

In his Moving On post, Ari Shapiro talks about keeping the ATC mission posted near his desk. Here's what I keep posted near my desk. Thanks, @ari-shapiro.bsky.social, for metaphorically holding my hand every time my research hits a roadblock! arishapiro.substack.com/p/moving-on

Excited to have this WP out! We use a real-stakes survey experiment to measure misperceptions about air pollution/health impacts & test whether updating beliefs changes WTP for clean air We find large misperceptions, but not strong evidence that rectifying these would close Black-White WTP gaps

Got into a friendly argument with a family member over whether California or the Midwest will be relatively worse for smoky days in the coming years. Want to go on a journey with us? 1/n

Saw this interesting puddle at Lake Superior yesterday that also happens to be roughly the shape of Lake Superior.

Like many people, I'm still struggling to comprehend the loss of Rep. Melissa Hortman. But I realized earlier today I do have a tribute to Melissa –– a letter of recommendation I wrote for her application to the Masters of Public Administration program: vist.ly/3n62m8i

Hey fellow profs, if you don't already, you might consider sending out congratulatory emails to the students who really nailed it. Definitely my favorite part of the end of the semester. The students who were curious, insightful, hardworking - we see you!

In middle school math league, I was asked to calculate the angles of a 7-pointed star. I calculated the angles for a 7/3 heptagram, but the answer key was for a 7/2 heptagram, and I received no credit. still bitter en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptagram

FOR REALS? Haven’t lived in MN (or as I like to call her, The Greatest State) since 2007 but OF COURSE they’re parking ramps. Had to call a trusted friend who has never lived in MN to confirm. I said “help me out what’s a parking ramp” & she said “the thing leading up to the parking lot?” WHAT

It's time for the latest & greatest of the economics of regulation! Follow along on the NBER YouTube channel: www.nber.org/conferences/...

corollary protip: doing little intuitive simulation examples as part of your own research workflow really amplifies understanding!

Excited to see this paper coming out in JAERE! The idea for this came from casual conversations very early in the PhD, so it's nice to see it find such a wonderful home! JAERE's review process was super helpful. Alternative title: "Why your recreation demand model probably needs a price instrument"

My working paper with @bistline.bsky.social is the subject of today's @ucenergyinstitute.bsky.social blog post by Meredith Fowlie. Honored! energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/a...

Please feel free to share far and wide! It's meant both for current and potential future PUDL data users. #EnergySky

In this week's Energy Inst blog, Max Auffhammer looks at one contribution universities make to the economy: research on the benefits and risks of deregulated wholesale electricity markets. One small example of the public goods they produce for society.🔌💡 energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/u...

Political Ideology and US EV adoption, by Davis, Li, Springel. Over 2012-23, EV adoption was driven by left-leaning areas, suggesting challenges in wider adoption. Will be interesting to see how Elon Musk might drive apolitical and right-wing consumers to adopt EVs. www.nber.org/papers/w33591

Welcome to Bluesky, my Tufts colleague @jingli-econ.bsky.social ! Jing has a new NBER working paper out today on political ideology and EVs:

Everyone is obsessed with celebrating the first three digits of Pi, but I only celebrate the last three.

New @rff.org paper & podcast episode alert! I model the regionally varying response of US oil and gas supply to export demand--both for liquefied natural gas (LNG) & crude oil. I focus on the impacts on methane emissions & US energy prices. [Podcast link below, paper link in the next post] 1/11

Everything is a lot right now. Want to tune it all out for ~10 minutes and help us better understand your energy data needs? We're kicking off our first (hopefully annual!) PUDL community survey. #EnergySky forms.gle/cT1ZY4yunhza...

Hopefully this is a useful tool: findlostdata.org

🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️ Webinar: Assault on Federal Employment and Programs Thursday, February 27, 12:30-2:00 PM ET Speakers: Nicholas Bednar (UMNLaw School), Donald Kettl (UofMD), Loren DeJonge Schulman (Telos Lab, formerly OMB) Moderator: Don Moynihan (UofM) www.appam.org/events/webin...

Come intern with us at @rff.org! We are accepting applications for our annual PAID summer internship program in Washington, DC. And one position will be working with me on tax policy related to critical minerals development. Please share! www.rff.org/careers/summ...

Environmental economists - submit to present at the NBER summer workshop Submissions due March 20th: papers.nber.org/confsubmit/b... #EconSky

In case you're on the UW–Madison campus tomorrow. sts.wisc.edu/event/moneti...

⏰ Today is your last chance to fill out the AERE member survey. Please help us make AERE and AERE's swag even better!

We're doing our best #EnergySky zenodo.org/communities/...

Heads up, the Biden-Harris White House websites are now archived! If you have an old link that gives an error, you can delete the www . whitehouse in the link (be sure to remove the www) and replace with bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ [rest of your link] bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/news-up...

Interesting new piece on utility regulation and rates of return in the US. 🔌💡 Many of the broad insights align with some of my own work (with Karl Dunkle Werner) where we examine the excessive returns that US regulators allow utility companies to pay out to shareholders.

Lucas Davis digs into proposed Constellation-Calpine merger in today's EI blog. Great teaching case on how combining marginal and infra-marginal capacity can potentially ratchet up market power. But other details, like retail position, also important. 💡🔌 energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/c...

Utility disconnections are a huge challenge in the US. I learned a ton about it from Sanya Carley on this weeks @rff.org podcast! www.resources.org/resources-ra...

We're expanding our collection of data archiving scripts just in case, and have improved the infrastructure and documentation to facilitate community contributions. Please let us know what to grab, or open an issue/PR! #EnergySky #OpenData github.com/catalyst-coo...

This reflects a bit of good news; 2.7C is a lot better than the 4C that many thought we were heading for a decade ago, and reflects real progress on moving away from a 21st century dominated by coal. At the same time, its far from what is needed:

Those with institutional access to Oxford Academic/Oxford Scholarship Online can now access an HTML version of my book here: academic.oup.com/book/59438 Looks like the dead-tree version will be available on/by March 4.

There is no fee for attending, and we will cover and arrange accommodation for invited speakers. Meals, snacks, and drinks will also be provided free of charge during the workshop!

I like to think it would be me, but I have zero doubt an @aereorg.bsky.social economist would win this

Here's a schematic I published in this 2021 piece to illustrate how even a modest delay in onset of rainy season in Southern California can dramatically amplify wildfire risk by lengthening seasonal overlap between dry vegetation and strong offshore winds during Oct-Jan. #CAfire

Hey folks! Excited to join the first-ever @reeconomies.bsky.social virtual brownbag on Friday, Jan 17. I'll be chatting w/ @danielraimi.bsky.social about how the decline in coal has impacted workers. Register here ⬇️ #econsky #energytransition us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This is off-the-charts high. During the 2020 fires, the Bay Area rarely got above an AWI of 300, as I recall. And those were the blackout sun days

Looking forward to this. Thanks so much to @imarinescu.bsky.social for organizing!