Resources for the Future Podcast

Risks that are highly uncertain but potentially catastrophic, such as climate change, terrorism, or natural disasters, provide special challenges for regulators. Difficult issues include determining the effects of regulations on the likelihood of catastrophic outcomes, the ways in which government agencies should address the associated fear, the extent to which regulations should be precautionary, and the appropriate roles of the public and private sectors. Jennifer Baxter, Industrial Economics, Incorporated (Moderator) “The Five Neglects: Risks Gone Amiss” Richard Zeckhauser, Harvard University “Duty to Inform When All Hell Could Break Loose” Baruch Fischhoff, Carnegie Mellon University “Considering Risk in Developing a Regulatory Response to Climate Change” Mort Webster, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “At War with the Weather and Other Extreme Events” Howard Kunreuther, University of Pennsylvania

As nations work to improve the quality of their policies and legislation, there are substantial opportunities for mutual learning. This panel will explore the successes and failures of U.S., E.U., and other regulatory reform efforts, highlight opportunities to learn from other’s policy innovations, and examine options for increasing international cooperation in evaluating and improving the quality of each nation’s policies and laws. Dominic Mancini, U.S. Office of Management and Budget (Moderator) “Better Regulation in the EU: Learning by Doing” Marianne Klingbeil, European Commission “Transatlantic Regulatory Impact Assessment: Tomorrow's Dream or Realization” Alberto Alemanno, HEC Paris “Fostering Quality Regulation for the 21st Century” Stephane Jacobzone, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development “Toward a Global Policy Laboratory” Jonathan Wiener, Duke University

The advent of a new Administration provides an opportunity to reconsider the regulatory development process. This panel will focus on OIRA’s role in prompting and reviewing domestic regulations as well as its requirements for regulatory analysis, reflecting the views of those who have worked within OIRA, interacted with OIRA as agency representatives, and studied OIRA’s legal authority and effectiveness. Arthur Fraas, Resources for the Future (Moderator) “Analysis on the 17 Most Political Acres on Earth” Donald Arbuckle, University of Texas “OIRA: What's It Good For?” Donald Elliott, Yale University, Willkie, Farr, and Gallagher LLP “Using Regulatory Impact Analyses to Inform Regulatory Decisions” Richard Williams, George Mason University “Defragmenting the Regulatory Process” Stuart Shapiro, Rutgers University

Moderator: Molly Macauley, Senior Fellow and Director, Academic Programs, Resources for the Future Panelists: Shalini Vajjhala, Fellow, Resources for the Future William Gail, Director within Startup Business Accelerator Group, Microsoft Bonnie Scranton, Information Designer

Speaker List: > Iris Goodman, Deputy National Program Director, Ecosystem Services Research Program, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency > Jim Laity, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget > John Kostyack, Executive Director, Wildlife Conservation and Global Warming, National Wildlife Federation > Sally Collins, Director, Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Moderator: Molly Macauley Panelists: - Alan Covich, Professor of Ecology, and former Director of the Institute of Ecology, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia - Richard Morgenstern, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future - James Neumann, Principal, Industrial Economics, Inc - Steven W. Running, University Regents Professor of Ecology, University of Montana, Missoula - James N. Sanchirico, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis; and University Fellow, Resources for the Future

Speaker List: - Richard Morgenstern, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future - Winston Harrington, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future - Sally Katzen, Michigan University Law School - Ted Gayer, Georgetown University Public Policy Institute

Speaker List: - Richard Morgenstern, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future - David M. Driesen, Syracuse University College of Law - Jeffrey Holmstead, Bracewell & Giuliani - Richard Revesz, New York University School of Law - Rena Steinzor, University of Maryland Law School

Speaker List: - Molly Macauley, Senior Fellow, RFF (moderator) - Glenn Morris, Director, University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute; former Deputy Administrator for Public Health and Science, USDA Food Safety Inspection Service. - Lisa Shames, Director of Food and Agriculture Issues, U.S. Government Accountability Office - Michael Taylor, Research Professor, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services; former Deputy Commissioner for Policy, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; former Administrator, USDA Food Safety Inspection Service - Richard Williams, Managing Director of the Regulatory Studies Program and Government Accountability Project, Mercatus Center, George Mason University; former Director of Social Sciences, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

How Markets Can Help Address Climate Change and Other Major Environmental Problems: In remarks at an RFF Policy Leadership Forum January 12, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr., endorsed market mechanisms to deal with global climate change and suggested that the U.S. would benefit from a regulatory arrangement that uses price signals to limit carbon dioxide emissions. Speaker List: - Phil Sharp, President, Resources for the Future - Henry Paulson, United States Treasury Secretary

Will wholesale government restructuring be needed to deal with the complex questions around climate change in the Obama Administration? A December 3 RFF roundtable addressed this topic in a discussion encompassing regulation, diplomacy and international engagement, science and information, and economic policy. Video and audio available. Speaker List: - Phil Sharp, President, RFF - Molly Macauley, Senior Fellow, RFF - John H. Gibbons, former Director, White House Office of Science and Technonlogy Policy - William Hooke, Director, Policy, American Meteorological Society - Dina Kruger, Director, Climate Change Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Nigel Purvis, Visiting Scholar, Resources for the Future; and President, Climate Advisers - Michael Toman, Professorial Lecturer in International Economics at the Nitze School of International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

The 1970s All Over Again? Or Truly a Paradigm Shift?: A distinguished group of academics and policymakers participated in an RFF symposium on the policy lessons from the energy crisis of the 1970s. Speaker List: - Phil Sharp, President, RFF - William Hogan, Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy, Harvard University - John W. Anderson, Journalist-in-Residence, RFF

From SFC to FutureGen: Technology Lessons Learned, Learnable, or Ignored: A distinguished group of academics and policymakers participated in an RFF symposium on the policy lessons from the energy crisis of the 1970s. Speaker List: - Robert Fri, Visiting Scholar and Former President, RFF - David Goldston, Former Chief of Staff, U.S. House Science Committee; columnist, Nature magazine

Emergence of Security Concerns: A distinguished group of academics and policymakers participated in an RFF symposium on the policy lessons from the energy crisis of the 1970s. Speaker List: - John Deutch, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Joel Darmstadter, Senior Fellow, RFF

The Elusive Search for Consensus: A distinguished group of academics and policymakers participated in an RFF symposium on the policy lessons from the energy crisis of the 1970s. Speaker List: - Milton Russell, Professor Emeritus, Economics Department, University of Tennessee