Ongoing projects:

Justice in Climate and Energy Policy

Regional Climate Policies & Decarbonizing Electricity

Local Impacts of Oil and Gas Production

 Published Papers:

Private Monitoring and Public Enforcement: Evidence from Complaints and Regulation of Oil and Gas Wells (with Dan Kaffine), forthcoming, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

Feasibility of space solar power for remote mining applications (with Nick Procter, Ensieh Shojaeddini, Angel Abbud-Madrid, and Ian Lange), forthcoming, Acta Astronautica

Updating Allowance Allocations in Cap-and-Trade: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program (with Ian Lange), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2021)

Costs of Increasing Oil and Gas Setbacks are Initially Modest but Rise Sharply (with Sean Ericson and Dan Kaffine), Energy Policy, 2020

Effects of State Taxation on Investment: Evidence from the Oil Industry (with Jason Brown and Dale T. Manning), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2020

Can Learning Explain Deterrence? Evidence from Oil & Gas Production, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2019

Environmental Justice in Unconventional Oil and Gas Production: A Critical Review and Research Agenda (with Adrianne Kroepsch, John Adgate, Lisa McKenzie, and Katherine Dickinson), Environmental Science & Technology, 2019

Interfirm Learning in Environmental Safety: Evidence from the Bakken (with Mike Redlinger and Ian Lange), Applied Economics, 2019

An Examination of Geographic Heterogeneity in Price Effects of Superfund Site Remediation (with Ralph Mastromonaco), Economics Letters, 2018

Leakage in Regional Environmental Policy: The Case of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (with Harrison Fell), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018

The Local Employment Impacts of Fracking: A National Study (with Ralph Mastromonaco), Resource and Energy Economics, 2017

Jurisdictional Tax Competition and the Division of Nonrenewable Resource Rents (with Dale Manning), Environmental and Resource Economics, 2017

An Estimate of the Producer Cost of Liability for Oil Spills, Applied Economics Letters, 2017

Why Have Greenhouse Emissions in RGGI States Declined? An Econometric Attribution to Economic, Energy Market and Policy Factors (with Brian Murray), Energy Economics: Volume 51, September 2015, Pages 581-589