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The authors use household-level data and hourly industry data from Mexico to show how more efficient pricing mechanisms, combined with well-designed environmental regulations, can significantly improve economic, social and environmental outcomes.

This study examines the impact of natural gas prices on the power systems of Mexico and the United States. In Energy Policy, The International Journal of the Political, Economic, Planning, Environmental and Social Aspects of Energy.

The authors identify mental health stressors and strategies for coping with distress among underserved Latino communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The authors assess the impact of Mexico's 2014 energy reform on consumer welfare.

Environmental disasters impact disadvantaged communities disproportionately both through the epidemiological challenge of exposure, but also by undermining the progress of public health efforts.

This paper presents a stochastic bilevel disjunctive program for transmission investment planning. Published in Networks and Spatial Economics -- A Journal of Infrastructure Modeling and Computation.

Published in Energy Policy, Volume 142, July 2020.

This article considers the implications of expanding hydroelectricity for war production and strategy using Canada, the United States and Germany during World War II as an example. The article also examines how war-time decisions structured the longer-term evolution of large technological systems: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022819000366

The authors investigate the benefits of joint investment planning for transmission lines and energy storage, finding that energy storage investments complement transmission expansion and contribute to higher social welfare values. Published by Energy Strategy Reviews: http://bit.ly/2vd2ZLA.

The authors examine the role that government policy can play in accelerating production and use of biochar at commercial scale, such as providing commercial financial incentives, nonfinancial policy support and research and development funding. The article also includes broad recommendations for the development of policy that maximizes the net benefits of biochar adoption.