Past Environmental Economics Seminars

NCEE hosts an environmental economic seminar series, which features presentations by EPA employees, other federal researchers, and academics. This series serves as a forum for presentations on timely topics in environmental economics. Below is a list of all the previous seminars dating back to 2018. Click on each entry to learn more about the featured presenters and their topics.

Note: Hosting of these seminars does not necessarily express or imply EPA approval or endorsement of the speaker’s views.

Environmental Economics Seminars

Seminar Title	Presenter(s)	Date
Chronic and Acute Water Contamination by Animal Feeding Operations: Evidence from Iowa and North Carolina	Claire Palandri	12/14/2023
Excess Emissions: Environmental Impacts, Health Effects, and Policy Debate	Nikolaos Zirogiannis	11/2/2023
Water Works: Causes and Consequences of Safe Drinking Water in America	David Keiser	10/11/2023
Making Policy in the Absence of Certainty: Understanding and Interpreting Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) Estimates	Colin Murphy	7/20/2023
Building the Prototype Census Environmental Impacts Frame	John Voorheis	6/12/2023
The Electric Vehicle Rebound Effect	Beia Spiller	5/17/2023
A Deep Dive into IPCC Mitigation Findings (WGIII): What’s NOT in the Summary for Policymakers	Karl Hausker	5/8/2023
Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes	Claudia Persico	4/13/2023
Uncharted Waters: Effects of Maritime Emission Regulation	Jamie Hansen-Lewis	3/16/2023
Economic Geography and the Efficiency of Environmental Regulation	Alex Hollingsworth	12/15/2022
Job Loss, Selective Migration, and the Accumulation of Disadvantage: Evidence from Appalachia’s Coal Country	Eleanor Krause	11/22/2022
The Social Cost of Nutrient Pollution	Cathy Kling	11/3/2022
Environmental Economics, Regulation and Innovations	E. Mads Greaker and David Popp	10/27/2022
Green Energy Jobs in the US: What Are They, and Where Are They?	E. Mark Curtis	10/05/2022
Environmental Justice and the Multigenerational Persistence of Environmental Exposure	Neha Khanna	6/28/2022
Regulating Untaxable Externalities - Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient?	Joseph S. Shapiro	6/9/2022
Natural capital accounting: From pilot accounts to national implementation	Kenneth J. Bagstad	5/31/2022
Energy Transitions in Regulated Markets	Ashley Langer	5/24/2022
Threshold Manipulation and Lead Monitoring in U.S. Drinking Water	Tihitina Andarge	5/9/2022
Internalizing Externalities Disclosure Regulation for Hydraulic Fracturing, Drilling Activity and Water Quality	Christian Leuz	4/26/2022
Racial Disparities in the Health Effects from Air Pollution: Evidence from Ports	Kenneth Gillingham	3/23/2022
Externalities of Policy-Induced Scrappage: The Case of Automotive Regulations	Akshaya Jha	2/24/2022
America's Energy Gamble: People, Economy and Planet	Shanti Gamper-Rabindran	1/13/2022
Drinking Water, Fracking, and Infant Health	Lala Ma	12/14/2021
The Real Effects of Mandatory CSR Disclosure on Emissions: Evidence from the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program	Nicholas Z. Muller	11/18/2021
Who Will Pay for Legacy Utility Costs?	Catherine Hausman	10/26/2021
The Macroeconomic Effects of a Carbon Tax to Meet the U.S. Paris Agreement Target: The Role of Firm Creation and Technology Adoption	Gilbert Metcalf	7/22/2021
Strategic Shutdowns of Air Quality Monitors: Evidence from Jersey City and Across the U.S.	Eric Zou	6/08/2021
A Lead Story: Lead Service Line Replacements and Child Blood Lead Levels	Michelle Marcus	5/13/2021
A Discounting Rule for the Social Cost of Carbon	Brian Prest (RFF)	4/07/2021
The Value of Water Quality: Estimating Amenity and Recreational Benefits	Yusuke Kuwayama	12/11/2019
The Effect of Incomplete Enforcement Information on Ambient Pollution Levels: Evidence from the Clean Water Act	Tihitina Andarge	11/19/2019
The Welfare Costs of Misaligned Incentives: Energy Inefficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem	Joshua Blonz	10/23/2019