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.