Insights

Op-Eds & Analysis

Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth Scholars provide their expert takes.
EPIC Op-Ed & Analysis·May 6, 2025

In the midst of an air pollution crisis, there’s another way India can better enforce emission rules

via Scroll.in
Poor oversight in a ‘licence raj’ encourages violations. Market-based environmental regulation such as pollution taxes and trade markets could be...
CSEI Op-Ed & Analysis·Dec 17, 2024

Comparing the benefits and risks of solar geoengineering

By: David Keith and Anthony Harding (Georgia Tech) Climate change has risks—and those risks are only increasing. Many of these...
EPIC Op-Ed & Analysis·Sep 19, 2024

One of the World’s Biggest Health Risks Is a Philanthropic Blind Spot

via The New York Times
EPIC Clean Air Program Director Christa Hasenkopf writes in the New York Times about pollution's threat to health and the...
EPIC Op-Ed & Analysis·Jul 29, 2024

Do California Farmers Respond to Electricity Prices?

via Energy Institute at HAAS
EPIC's Fiona Burlig and co-authors Louis Preonas and Matt Woerman write on how new efforts to curb groundwater depletion will...
CSEI Op-Ed & Analysis·Sep 28, 2023

David Keith on why carbon removal won’t save big oil but may help the climate

via The Economist
Greens should cheer the blurring of the industry’s interests, says the academic
EPIC Op-Ed & Analysis·Apr 26, 2023

Making the Case for Climate Action: The Impacts of Climate Change on Public Health and Our Economy Due to Temperature

via United States Senate Committee on the Budget
Statement of Michael Greenstone presented to the United States Senate Committee on the Budget.
EPIC Op-Ed & Analysis·Jun 5, 2019

A Win-Win-Win Innovation in Environmental Policy

via Forbes
As the world commemorates World Environment Day, the Indian state of Gujarat launches the first emissions trading program for deadly...
EPIC Op-Ed & Analysis·Jun 4, 2019

How Many Years Of Life You Lose Because Of Air Pollution

via Wall Street Journal
Michael Greenstone, EPIC director, and Sam Ori, executive director, discuss findings of the air quality life index in the Wall...
EPIC Op-Ed & Analysis·May 20, 2019

Why Cleaning Up The Air Isn’t An Election Issue In India

via Forbes
A new political discourse around the issue of Air Pollution in India is needed to ignite voters and pressure public...