- Corporate Emissions Inflict Significant Costs on Society, But Disclosure Could Help Reduce Emissions. Requiring companies to report their emissions publicly would give both the government and the public data to act upon and may cause the companies to voluntarily reduce their emissions. https://epic.uchicago.edu/news/corporate-emissions-inflict-significant-costs-on-society-but-disclosure-could-help-reduce-emissions/ 10 comments science
- A single bad El Niño can drive almost 6 million children into severe hunger, a new study has found. El Niño is a natural heating cycle over the Pacific ocean that causes large-scale weather changes around the globe around every four to seven years. https://epic.uchicago.edu/news/nearly-6-million-children-are-driven-into-severe-hunger-by-the-hot-dry-shifts-of-a-strong-el-nino/ 6 comments science
- New University of Chicago Study finds Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) "significantly increase average retail electricity prices". Seven years after passing an RPS, consumers in these 29 states had paid $125.2 billion more for electricity than they would have in the absence of the policy. https://epic.uchicago.edu/research/publications/do-renewable-portfolio-standards-deliver 6 comments science