Environmental and Energy Policy

Recovering Rare Earth Elements from Coal Mine Drainage Using Industrial Byproducts: Environmental and Economic Consequences

Environmental Engineering Science

2022

This article summarizes laboratory-scale experimental results of a trap-extract-precipitate (TEP) process and uses the mass and energy balances to estimate the economic costs and environmental impacts of the TEP.

Energy Conversion and Management

2022

Associate Professor Bielicki's study reveals that a Flexible CO2 Plume Geothermal (CPG-F) facility, capable of providing both dispatchable power and energy storage, can deliver 190% more power than a conventional CPG power plant for 8 hours while costing 70% more in capital, making it an efficient baseload power and dispatchable storage option.

Emerging Themes and Future Directions of Multi-Sector Nexus Research and Implementation

Frontiers in Environmental Science

2022

Associate Professor Jeff Bielicki presents the results of a collaborative thought exercise involving 75 scientists and summarizes them into 10 key recommendations covering: the most critical nexus issues of today, emerging themes, and where future efforts should be directed.

Excess Emissions: Environmental Impacts, Health Effects, and Policy Debate

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

2023

Alex Hollingsworth studies the need for emissions data reporting to enable creation and implementation of effective regulatory frameworks.

Commodifying Conservation

Contexts

2015

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea examines conservation banks that price the priceless and change how we protect natural resources.

Enviromental Planning E Nature and Space

2019

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea develops a novel analytical framework for explaining why this kind of environmental market-making may or may not be successful in different contexts.

The EU Emissions Trading Scheme: Protection via Commodification?

Culture, Practice & Europeanization

2019

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea shows that market-oriented schemes like the EU ETS are better characterized as Polanyian countermovements that are, in fact, helping to “re-embed” the European economy in more ecologically sustainable relationships with nature.

Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

2020

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea describes three potential baselines for assessing the nature and impact of Trump’s anti-science rhetoric and (in)action on science, science policy, and politics.

The Eco-Munitionary Subject: Conservation with and of Firearms

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

2023

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea examines the role of the Pittman-Robertson Act in shaping the relationship between firearms and conservation and seeks to understand how this relationship is reproduced.