RT @NafisaLohawala: Had a great conversation on @DanielRaimi about Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs). We discussed aviation’s climate impac….

Looking for something productive to do while stressing today? Matt Dalbey and I have a new @rff report about the "Energy Communities" IWG. We document the origins, key activities, and lessons learned as the IWG seeks to support an equitable transition.

RT @LSEGeography: 🎙️ Stephen Jarvis joins host @DanielRaimi to discuss how local opposition - often called “NIMBYism,” or Not In My Backyar….

RT @WaterEquityLab: Excited to highlight wastewater inequities in the U.S. & possible solutions on @rff’s podcast series, with @DanielRaimi….

Overall, fracking is not as important to the PA economy as it is in other major oil- and gas-producing states like TX, NM, ND, OK, AK, and others. 4/4.

What's going on here? Well, PA is a big state with major metro areas. What's more, most major PA producers are headquartered in TX and OK. That said, the industry is quite important in some more rural parts of the state, primarily in the southwest and northeast. 3/4.

Although it's the US' #2 natural gas producer, PA's employment and economic output from the oil and gas industry roughly matches the national average. 2/4

Fracking is back on the national radar thanks to PA's electoral importance. In this new @rff @ResourcesMag blog, I describe how the industry is actually a very small part of the state's economy (1/4):.

This week marks the *300th* episode of Resources Radio @rff @ResourcesMag. And it’s a banger! @andrewrwaxman describes a recent paper estimating the local air pollution effects of CCS. Check it out! .

RT @_josephshapiro: 🚨1 month left.🚨 Submit papers to @nberpubs project on Trade, Energy, Decarbonization, deadline 10/16. 🔗 https://t.co/….

How can researchers do a better job of incorporating equity issues into their computational models? That's the subject of this week's @ResourcesMag @rff podcast with the fantastic @amandagiang of @UBC. All modelers (and everyone else): check it out!.

Check out this week’s @rff @ResourcesMag podcast featuring Catie, my fantastic friend and stellar colleague from the @fordschool!.

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Are place-based policies inherently flawed? Of course not! But if we're going to use them to try and address our many energy and environmental challenges, let's do a better job targeting the right resources to the right places. /fin.

If you're an energy community, solar and wind projects are incentivized. But struggling energy communities often have much more pressing issues like plunging tax revenues or substandard housing.

Along with flawed targeting, programs don't offer the things that communities need. If you qualify for J40 because of air pollution, the benefits offered don't necessarily do anything to address air pollution.

"Much of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Berkeley, California—affluent cities with a large college-age population—qualify as low-income communities due to low income levels, likely because most students earn little or no income.".

How we got here is complicated (we share details in the piece) but some of the outcomes are absurd. For example, Times Square qualifies for Justice40. Most of Orange County, CA—including Disneyland—qualifies as an “energy community,” while most of the Permian basin doesn't.

We look at 4 recent programs: Justice40, Energy Communities, Disadvantaged Communities, and Environmental and Climate Justice communities. Together, these programs cover a whopping 79% of US land mass and 64% of the population.