How much arsenic is in your drinking water? Maybe a lot less than there used to be, thanks to a 2001 change in the Safe Drinking Water Act! Read the paper, just out in ES&T: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10..... @rff.org @cornellbrooks.bsky.social @lsuagcenter.bsky.social

Impacts of the U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act Arsenic Rule on Arsenic Occurrence †

This study provides the first retrospective analysis of the causal impacts of the 2001 US Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) Arsenic Rule on arsenic (As) occurrence in public drinking water systems. Using...

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Hey #EconSky working in environmental econ! Looking for things to do this weekend? Why not write up a 2-3 page proposal for a cool conference-publication combo, happening in May 2025 in Washington, DC? Submit your proposal (or paper) here by Oct 20: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

Submission: 8th Annual NBER Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy Conference, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBER

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A call from environmental & natural resource economists to reinstate the authors of the National Climate Assessment. Please read, share, & (if you wish) sign. support-nca.org

📣 Join the AERE Graduate Student Engagement Committee next week for this awesome panel. Happening next Monday, so in a week (April 7th, like in the poster, not the last post -- apologies for the typo!) See you there! Register here: buff.ly/RBK77Xb

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Join the AERE Graduate Student Engagement Committee for this great panel on communicating research! Monday, Apr. 27th, 11am EDT, featuring: ✨ Paul Ferraro ✨ Sathya Gopalakrishnan ✨ Ashley Lowe Mackenzie (@alowemackenzie.bsky.social) Register: buff.ly/RBK77Xb

🚨HRSA's Area Health Resources Files webpage is now down. Fortunately, I built an archive of data 2000-2023 for a previous project, which can be accessed without restriction here: data.mendeley.com/datasets/dwf...

Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.

Just like the 10-repeals-for-every-new-regulation EO, this 4-exits-for-every-new-hire EO does NOT guarantee improvements in efficiency. Like the buy-1-firework-get-15-free signs, dig just a little deeper & you’ll see it’s not the great deal the simple tag line would have you believe.

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 2y ago

Breaking: Trump is signing an executive order intended to cut federal workforce Order directs agencies to work with DOGE and says that after the current hiring freeze lifts, agencies will only be able to hire one new employee for every four who leave (with a few exceptions like law enforcement)

April Fool’s Day is gonna be a real letdown this year.

Holy forking shirt balls "Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "

The Quarterly Journal of Economics@qjeharvard.bsky.social · 2y ago

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and their Children,” by Londoño-Vélez (@jlondonovelez.bsky.social) and Saravia: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Fun to hear my colleague Michael Webber on On Point today doing his thing talking about energy and TX. He claims to be an engineer & policy guy but I think there might be an economist in there too. #econsky @npr.org www.npr.org/podcasts/510...

On Point

Let's make sense of the world – together. From the economy and health care to politics and the environment – and so much more – On Point host Meghna Chakrabarti speaks with newsmakers and real people ...

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After so many examples I shouldn’t be surprised but still am when lobbyists convince politicians to make such foolish, not to mention costly, policy choices.

Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · 2y ago

In an ideal world we would have a government statistical agency doing this work of counting college students However Congress has banned the existence of a federal “unit record” data system bc higher ed lobbyists pressed them to Wouldn’t want transparency and accountability after all

I was supposed to be back in LA today for the bar mitzvah of my son’s friend. Temple was in the evacuation zone until about 60 hours ago. Bar mitzvah took place today. Attended on Zoom (& cried through much of it in spite of not understanding Hebrew). The magic of LA has always been in community.

Only a week late but I’m thrilled to announce 2 additions to @jaereaere.bsky.social editorial team: @ariklevinson.bsky.social as editor & Jianwei (Jerry) Xing as co-editor. Welcome Arik & Jerry! #econsky

Feeling that post-conference high from connecting with colleagues, listening to innovative research, plotting new projects. Never gets old. #econsky #ASSA2025

Advice for 2025 (which I may regret offering)...If you mostly said no when invited to review a paper in 2024, then say yes more in 2025. If you mostly said yes when invited to review a paper in 2024, then say no more in 2025. Yes, even if I invite you! #econsky

So exciting to see 4 environmental articles in the latest issue of AEJ Applied! Congrats to @jmcolmer.bsky.social @cjwich.bsky.social & other authors! #econsky

AEA Journals@aeajournals.bsky.social · 2y ago

The January 2025 issue of AEJ: Applied Economics (17, 1) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/788.

Feel like this can't be true but tried to buy some canned NA cocktails this morning at Central Market. Check out associate said she couldn't sell them because it was before noon on a Sunday. TX blue laws can't possibly apply to NA drinks, can they? @texastribune.org @austinchronicle.bsky.social

Gave myself a holiday gift...time to migrate here! Hoping to connect with my econ colleagues here like in the before times. Still figuring things out so hoping to learn from some pros @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social @jmcolmer.bsky.social @ludogazze.bsky.social @cjwich.bsky.social @econsandy.bsky.social