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Is Climate Change a Prisoner's Dilemma or a Stag Hunt?
Welcome back, gamers! This installment of the project on game theory and climate change will take some time to outline…
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Game Theory and Climate Change: Defining the Problem
Welcome back, gamers! A week ago, I wrote a Note here with the goal of crowdsourcing reader and expert knowledge…
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters The Environmental Impact of Gun Ranges
The residual lead from years of spent bullets can endanger human health and contaminate the surrounding area. And yet there’s little federal oversight.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Democrats' Most Substantive Climate Debate Yet
It’s probably the best exchange on energy that American voters will hear this year.
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Using Game Theory to Break the Climate Gridlock
Let the game begin! I was very excited by my colleague Andrew McGill’s work to bring game theory into the…
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U.S. Coast Guard / Reuters Obama Abandons Plans to Drill in the Atlantic Ocean
Oil and gas exploration off the coast of Alaska and in the Gulf of Mexico will move forward.
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Paul Sancya / AP The Real Cause of the Flint Crisis
America’s infrastructure was once the envy of the world, but in an era of government-bashing, it has been allowed to crumble.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Supreme Court Didn't Block These Obama Climate Policies
Even without the Clean Power Plan, dozens of White House environmental regulations are still shifting energy use.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Will a Reconfigured Supreme Court Help Obama's Clean-Power Plan Survive?
A sudden vacancy scrambles the prospects for the administration’s climate-change rules.
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Thibault Camus / AP Did the Supreme Court Doom the Paris Climate Change Deal?
The Clean Power Plan is in bad shape, but the planet might not be.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Supreme Court's Devastating Decision on Climate
The move raises the stakes of the presidential election for those concerned about global warming.
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David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters Obama's $10 Oil-Tax Pipe Dream
The president is proposing a big per-barrel fee. It won’t be passed by this Congress, but what about the next?
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Andrew McGill/The Atlantic The Massive, Empty Federal Lands of the American West
The U.S. government owns half of the land in 11 western states—but almost no one lives there.
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Reuters United States v. Volkswagen
The Justice Department is suing the automaker over illegal emissions-control software installed in thousands of diesel vehicles.
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Noah Berger / Reuters San Francisco's Self-Defeating Housing Activists
Tech companies and workers are vilified while longtime homeowners who fight high-density growth continue to profit from rising rents and property values.
