Articles by Frank Ackerman
Frank Ackerman is a senior economist at Synapse Energy Economics, a research and consulting firm in Cambridge, Mass. He is also a founding member of Economics for Equity and the Environment.
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Bjorn Lomborg: same skeptic, different day
Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish climate skeptic, is back in the news. He now wants to have it both ways, calling climate change real, but not really urgent.
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The atrazine emails: Science with an attitude is still science
UC Berkeley professor Tyrone Hayes sent obscene emails to pesticide maker Syngenta's staff. But that doesn't invalidate his research on atrazine.
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A climate policy for people and the environment
A well-designed climate policy could slash greenhouse emissions and put money in Americans' pockets -- but that's not what Congress is considering.
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What would happen if we admitted to the high risk of deepwater drilling?
Was the Obama administration “arbitrary and capricious” in imposing a six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling? U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman thought so. His June 22 order reversed the moratorium, citing the “immeasurable harm” to “the local economy, the Gulf region, and the critical present-day aspect of the availability of domestic energy in this country.” […]
