Common Resources
A blog that offers timely analysis and commentary about pressing environmental and energy issues.
Common Resources Archive
Is Accuracy the Right Criterion for Updating Greenhouse Gas Accounting Standards?
Oct. 29, 2025
Direct Lithium Extraction in Arkansas: A Golden Goose for the State?
Oct. 27, 2025
Addressing Social Science Questions About Solar Radiation Modification
Oct. 21, 2025
California’s Innovative Vision for Climate Policy and Energy Affordability
Oct. 17, 2025
A Conversation on Climate Week
Oct. 8, 2025
Incentivizing Superhot Rock Geothermal Exploration
Sept. 25, 2025
Contracts for Difference to Spur Clean and Competitive Industry: Options for Federal Policymakers
Sept. 23, 2025
Remembering Douglas R. Bohi
Sept. 17, 2025
If/Then: Repealing the Endangerment Finding Doesn’t Just Affect Domestic Climate Policy
Sept. 11, 2025
What are Renewable Energy Credits Good For?
Sept. 9, 2025
If/Then: Sunsetting Energy Regulations
Sept. 4, 2025
If/Then: The Ambitions of the Litigated Community Change Grants
Aug. 25, 2025
What’s Happening to Electricity Affordability? in Five Charts
Aug. 21, 2025
If/Then: Unintended Effects of Recent Federal Actions on Electricity Prices
Aug. 7, 2025
Your August Listening Guide: Favorites from the Resources Radio Team
Aug. 5, 2025
If/Then: How Congress Made a Weird Energy Law Even Weirder with Nuclear Energy Communities
Aug. 4, 2025
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Will See Improvements as Part of Third Program Review
July 18, 2025
If/Then: Terminated Projects at the US Department of Energy Need Evidence of True Cost Savings
July 15, 2025
If/Then: Resources for the Future Experts React to the Budget Reconciliation Bill
July 3, 2025
If/Then: Staff Reductions at Federal Agencies Strain the Process of Informing Policy
June 27, 2025
If/Then: Removing Federal Support for Electric Vehicles—Will It Help or Hurt Society?
June 11, 2025
If/Then: The Economics of Regulatory Repeal
May 13, 2025
If/Then: New Cuts to Oil and Gas Royalty Rates in Budget Reconciliation Will Reduce Federal Revenues
May 9, 2025
Do the Advantages of Geothermal Energy Justify Greater Federal Support?
May 8, 2025