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New Blog on Environmental Economics and Policy

I had been meaning to introduce this new environmental economics blog, courtesy of my colleague Lori Bennear, who is an Assistant Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment here at Duke.

In one of her first posts, Lori looks at the externalities from fracking in relation to the Coase Theorem:

There are many potential externalities associated with fracking.  An excellent analysis of potential externalities from methane contamination of groundwater by Osborn, Vengosh, Warner, and Jackson, all from Duke, can be found in this paper.  Today’s blog will focus on a different aspect of the fracking debate — the negative externalities associated with radioactive wastewater.

Back from Vacation

There have been few posts on this blog over the last week given that my wife and I were away on vacation.

Because I was applying for legal permanent resident status this year, we decided against international travel for our annual vacation, so we  first went to Pittsburgh, where I was asked to talk about impact evaluation and had to pick up  an award at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association annual meetings. From Pittsburgh, we drove to Ithaca, where my wife and I met while we were in grad school, since it has been five years since we left. Here is proof that Ithaca is (still) gorges:

Changes

An entire day of being unable to load the WordPress dashboard — and months of page load times approaching what feels like infinity — got me upset enough with GoDaddy last Friday so as to want to change hosts. So I decided to overcome my fear of technical details and moved my blog to Hostgator, which was suggested by my colleague Don Taylor since it hosts The Incidental Economist.