The Trump administration has made every effort to arrest the decline of coal in the United States. These efforts include…
Author: Brock Smith
Brock Smith
Brock Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University. He received a PhD from UC-Davis in 2013 and spent three years as a Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Analysis of Resource Rich Economies. He mainly studies effects of oil and natural gas shocks in both an international and domestic US setting.
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Last August Northwestern Energy, Montana’s largest electricity supplier, released an “Electricity Supply Resource Procurement Plan,” which details how it plans…
There are plenty of things in the world to be worried about, and day-to-day news headlines have a well-known bias…
There is a large literature in Economics on a phenomenon called the “Resource Curse”: the observation that countries or regions…
The Keystone Oil Pipeline has been a decade-long saga of on-again, off-again construction and never-ending lawsuits. Nebraska’s supreme court recently…