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Sheila Olmstead, professor of public affairs at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin, shared her thoughts on US water policy and environmental justice in the newest episode of “Environmental Insights: Discussions on Policy and Practice from the Harvard Environmental Economics Program,” a podcast produced by the Harvard Environmental Economics Program. Read the interview transcript here: https://heep.hks.harvard.edu/files/heep/files/sheila_olmstead_interview_transcript_01.pdf.

Sheila Olmstead, professor of public affairs at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin, shared her thoughts on US water policy and environmental justice in the newest episode of “Environmental Insights: Discussions on Policy and Practice from the Harvard Environmental Economics Program,” a podcast produced by the Harvard Environmental Economics Program. Read the interview transcript here: <a href="https://heep.hks.harvard.edu/files/heep/files/sheila_olmstead_interview_transcript_01.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://heep.hks.harvard.edu/files/heep/files/sheila_olmstead_interview_transcript_01.pdf</a>.

Thoughts on Water Management and Environmental Justice: A Conversation with Sheila Olmstead

For this week’s EnergyTradeoffs.com podcast interview, we have David Spence interviewing Sheila Olmstead his colleague at the University of Texas, about Sheila’s research on “Carbon Taxes: The Evolving Conventional Wisdom.”Sheila responds to the concern that a carbon tax would have a regressive impact on lower-income households by raising the price of energy. She explains that a carbon tax is actually less likely to have a net regressive impact on low-income households than other climate policies. Nearly all climate policies place disproportionate burdens on low-income households that spend a larger share of their income on energy. But a carbon tax produces revenue that can be used to offset or eliminate the costs it imposes on vulnerable populations. (And, of course, as I argue here on Greg Mankiw’s blog, it imposes more transparent burdens than other climate policies, which means that policymakers will be more likely to address those burdens on low-income households.)Sheila also argues that a carbon tax would not have a major negative impact on the economy. And she argues that the negative impact of the tax on some fossil fuel sectors is a feature not a bug of a policy designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Sheila also argues that even if a carbon tax starts at $40 per ton, new research suggests that it should rise well beyond that. Finally, Sheila explains the controversy over whether governments that impose a carbon price should consider rolling back other climate regulations.Sheila and David reference the Climate Leadership Council’s “Economist Statement on Carbon Dividends,” which was signed by all four former Chairs of the Federal Reserve, 27 Nobel Laureate economists, and 3,500 economists, including Sheila. The Energy Tradeoffs Podcast can be found at the following links: Apple | Google

For this week’s <a href="https://www.energytradeoffs.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">EnergyTradeoffs.com</a> podcast interview, we have <a href="https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/david-b-spence" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">David Spence</a> interviewing <a href="https://lbj.utexas.edu/olmstead-sheila" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Sheila Olmstead</a> his colleague at the University of Texas, about Sheila’s research on “<a href="https://www.energytradeoffs.com/2020/01/23/sheila-olmstead-carbon-taxes-the-evolving-conventional-wisdom/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Carbon Taxes: The Evolving Conventional Wisdom</a>.”Sheila responds to the concern that a carbon tax would have a regressive impact on lower-income households by raising the price of energy. She explains that a carbon tax is actually less likely to have a net regressive impact on low-income households than other climate policies. Nearly all climate policies place disproportionate burdens on low-income households that spend a larger share of their income on energy. But a carbon tax produces revenue that can be used to offset or eliminate the costs it imposes on vulnerable populations. (And, of course, as I argue <a href="http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2007/04/case-against-cap-and-trade.html" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">here on Greg Mankiw’s blog</a>, it imposes more transparent burdens than other climate policies, which means that policymakers will be more likely to address those burdens on low-income households.)Sheila also argues that a carbon tax would not have a major negative impact on the economy. And she argues that the negative impact of the tax on some fossil fuel sectors is a feature not a bug of a policy designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Sheila also argues that even if a carbon tax starts at $40 per ton, new research suggests that it should rise well beyond that. Finally, Sheila explains the controversy over whether governments that impose a carbon price should consider rolling back other climate regulations.Sheila and David reference the Climate Leadership Council’s “<a href="https://clcouncil.org/economists-statement/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Economist Statement on Carbon Dividends</a>,” which was signed by all four former Chairs of the Federal Reserve, 27 Nobel Laureate economists, and 3,500 economists, including Sheila. The Energy Tradeoffs Podcast can be found at the following links: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/energy-tradeoffs/id1470891782" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Apple</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Iqkwkn6f2tl65srzxrr3sc5tawe?t=Energy_Tradeoffs" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Google</a>

Energy Tradeoffs Podcast #41 – Sheila Olmstead

This week’s EnergyTradeoffs.com podcast features David Spence interviewing the University of Texas’s Sheila Olmstead about her research on “Cost-Benefit Analysis, ‘Secret Science,’ and OIRA Reviews of Rulemaking.”Sheila talks about two challenges of doing cost-benefit analysis on climate regulation. First, she describes why the bulk of benefits from carbon rules actually are indirect benefits of reduced air pollution, not climate benefits from reduced carbon emissions. Second, she talks about why many studies on the effects of air pollution depend on private health data that cannot be released to the wider public for replication. She also describes what she sees as hopeful avenues for regulatory reform.The Energy Tradeoffs Podcast can be found at the following links: Apple | Google

This week’s <a href="https://www.energytradeoffs.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">EnergyTradeoffs.com</a> podcast features <a href="https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/david-b-spence" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">David Spence</a> interviewing the University of Texas’s <a href="https://lbj.utexas.edu/directory/faculty/sheila-olmstead" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Sheila Olmstead</a> about her research on “<a href="https://www.energytradeoffs.com/2019/05/12/sheila_olmstead/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Cost-Benefit Analysis, ‘Secret Science,’ and OIRA Reviews of Rulemaking</a>.”Sheila talks about two challenges of doing cost-benefit analysis on climate regulation. First, she describes why the bulk of benefits from carbon rules actually are indirect benefits of reduced air pollution, not climate benefits from reduced carbon emissions. Second, she talks about why many studies on the effects of air pollution depend on private health data that cannot be released to the wider public for replication. She also describes what she sees as hopeful avenues for regulatory reform.The Energy Tradeoffs Podcast can be found at the following links: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/energy-tradeoffs/id1470891782" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Apple</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Iqkwkn6f2tl65srzxrr3sc5tawe?t=Energy_Tradeoffs" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Google</a>

Energy Tradeoffs Podcast #5 – Sheila Olmstead