13 years ago marked the first day of my career as an environmental economist ✨🥸🎓I never would have imagined ending up in the NGO space, but am grateful every day for having taken this path. ⚡️🚙🔌☀️interested in pursuing a PhD but unsure of a future in academia? Let’s chat!!

Tough issues here.
- We could really use China's cheap EVs here.
- But would that be good or bad for popular/political support of decarbonization policy?

IDK

Commissioner Mark C. Christie's objections in this meeting are misplaced. He is correct that current cost allocation methods are nonsense. But that isn't a reason to avoid good planning--that's a reason to improve the cost allocation methods!

Thrilled to share our latest work with Adrien Bilal! Check out our new working paper:

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲: 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝘀. 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲

Read here: bit.ly/4bsxvU0

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BEI is no longer on X, but must read for #energy folks.
This post by Severin Borenstein on California's tiny step in the right direction.
energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/05/13/rea…

Thanks for engaging! In fact, Figure 6 says the opposite: there is no evidence of adaptation for world GDP. If anything, damages worsen over time: the average post-1985 response is larger (-7.5%) than the baseline, post-1960 one (-6.3%).

a big shortcoming of coverage of the American presidency is treating it in isolation as if developments are unique to the US.

populist discontent,
unpopular leaders, inflation - all global phenomena of which the US is just one example. and in some cases, as with the economy,…

Good morning with good news: Wind & solar generated 45% of Texas's electricity in April 2024. Wow!

Nuclear produced 8%, making zero-CO2 power 53%!

Wind & solar generated more than gas. Solar produced ~12% and more than coal. Wonderful!

Credit Joe Deely
view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?s…

Climate-GDP regressions (usually with 2WFE) always made me uneasy, for a few reasons. Looking at global rather than local shocks addresses many of these reasons.

Big climate impacts if this is right. Even though GDP excludes many impacts.

This is very true. H/T Matthias Fripp

If my calculations are correct, the largest direct air capture (DAC) will reduce emissions by about as much as a 3 - 7 MW of solar.

That's not much. But maybe the tech will move the needle by 2050 when there's no coal and little natural gas to displace.
cnn.com/2024/05/08/cli…

So many research ideas! Thanks U.S. CBO

Florida's ban on lab-grown meat isn't just politics; it could kill the innovation we need to reduce emissions from agriculture.

Also, not noted here, but our meat comes from corn and soybeans. EVs and lab-grown meat could kill the demand for these crops.
nytimes.com/2024/05/06/opi…

Reconductoring to enhance transmission makes a lot of sense.

It is strange and unfortunate that we haven't done more of this already. What' impressive here is how well Callaway et al address the institutional challenges of getting this done.

energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/05/06/can…

Jay Rosen Ben Smith Wow. As someone who does this for a living I can say this very strange thought process and defense are both foreign to me and very disturbing.

Look what finally got published!

TL;DR: Under some OK assumptions, the indirect fiscal benefits of low-skilled immigration might outweigh the direct fiscal downsides, because low-skilled immigrants make natives more productive.

One Photo That Captures the Loss in Gaza nytimes.com/2024/05/04/opi…

Excited to share my team's github page, where we maintain:

*did_multiplegt_dyn (Stata, R):
*twowayfeweights (Stata, R)
*did_multiplegt (Stata, R)

To inquire about packages, post your Q in Issue section on GitHub page: your Q may help other users!

github.com/chaisemartinPa…