Resources for the Future
The global clean energy transition is increasing demand for critical minerals, but many countries face supply chain challenges. Over the academic year of 2025-2026, a group of 16 PhD students study...
In this episode, host Daniel Raimi invites podcast guest Amy Townsend-Small, a professor at the University of Cincinnati, to illuminate the history, environmental impact, and cultural significance ...
This week, host Margaret Walls welcomes Celso Ferreira and Liz Van Dolah on the podcast to talk about building resilience in coastal communities that are vulnerable to sea level rise. Ferreira, a p...
What new economic activities offer promise for fossil fuel communities? Using examples of oil and gas well cleanup in Canada, waterway restoration in Pennsylvania, and direct lithium extraction fro...
In this week’s episode, host Margaret Walls welcomes to the podcast Nick Bratton, who works as a program manager in King County, Washington State, coordinating and promoting market-based conservati...
Air-quality regulations in the United States are largely success stories—starting from the Clean Air Act of 1970, followed by its amendments in 1977 and 1990. Senior Fellow Bryan Hubbell highlights...
For this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi is joined by Lauren Dunlap, a project manager at the University of California, Los Angeles, Luskin Center for Innovation—and a former staff member at Reso...
The oil and gas industry is a major economic driver in communities across the country, but price volatility, geological factors, and state and federal policy can all create short- and long-term ris...
In this week’s episode, host Kristin Hayes is joined by University of Michigan Associate Professor Johanna Mathieu, who researches the efficiency and environmental impacts of the electric power sec...
With the Farm Bill gaining momentum in Congress, one of its cornerstone programs is set to be reauthorized: the Conservation Reserve Program. This program, run by the US Department of Agriculture (...
In this episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Deborah Gordon, a senior principal at the Rocky Mountain Institute and senior fellow at the Watson School of International and Public Affairs at Brown ...
In this week’s episode, host Kristin Hayes is joined by podcast-host-turned-guest Daniel Raimi, a fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF) and director of RFF’s Communities in the Energy Transition...
In this episode, Sarah Armitage, an assistant professor at Boston University, sits with host Daniel Raimi to share findings from a working paper she wrote with coauthors about the transfer sales of...
Wyoming and New Mexico are among the United States’ largest producers of fossil fuels. Despite their reliance on coal, oil, and natural gas for revenue and jobs, both states are actively seeking to...
In this episode, host Kristin Hayes is joined by Beia Spiller, a fellow and director of the transportation program at Resources for the Future (RFF), to explore new RFF research findings on critica...
For this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi is joined by David M. Hart, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and professor emeritus at George Mason University, to discuss the ma...
On Tuesday, April 7 RFF hosted “Global Energy Outlook 2026: How the World Lost the Goal of 1.5°C,” which coincided with the release of the 2026 Global Energy Outlook—RFF’s annual report that synthe...
In this episode, host Margaret Walls talks with Kevin Stiroh, a senior fellow at Resources for the Future and a former senior advisor at the Federal Reserve. Pulling from his extensive career in th...
In this episode, Destenie Nock, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, joins host Daniel Raimi to discuss measures utilities and policymakers can take to better capture energy-access...
Air-quality regulations in the United States are largely success stories—starting from the Clean Air Act of 1970, followed by its amendments in 1977 and 1990. Senior Fellow Bryan Hubbell highlights...