Coal plant retirements will continue despite Trump’s EPA pick (Devashree Saha, Sifan Liu, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2016/12/19/coal-plant-retirements-will-continue-despite-trumps-epa-pick/

Growth, carbon, and Trump: States are “decoupling” economic growth from emissions growth (Devashree Saha, Mark Muro, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2016/12/08/decoupling-economic-growth-from-emissions-growth/

Growth, carbon, and Trump: State progress and drift on economic growth and emissions ‘decoupling’ (Devashree Saha, Mark Muro, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/growth-carbon-and-trump-state-progress-and-drift-on-economic-growth-and-emissions-decoupling/

Five things to know about the North Dakota Access Pipeline debate (Devashree Saha, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2016/09/14/five-things-to-know-about-the-north-dakota-access-pipeline-debate/

Metropolitan Lens: The Texas economy in an age of cheap oil (Devashree Saha, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2016/08/24/metropolitan-lens-the-texas-economy-in-an-age-of-cheap-oil/

Rooftop solar: Net metering is a net benefit (Mark Muro, Devashree Saha, Brookings)

Rooftop solar is booming in U.S. cities

http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2016/05/23-rooftop-solar-net-metering-muro-saha

Funding economic change with fracking revenues (Mark Muro, Devashree Saha, Brookings)

First, the fracking boom strained state and local governments as unconventional oil and gas development generated population spikes, heavy truck traffic, and new service demands.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/04/25-funding-economic-change-fracking-muro-saha

Permanent trust funds: Funding economic change with fracking revenues (Devashree Saha, Mark Muro, Brookings)

The recent boom and bust of unconventional oil and gas development, or “fracking,” has reopened serious questions about resource management in many U.S. states. While the oil and gas boom generated revenue, jobs, and economic development, the recent bust has adversely impacted state budgets due to declining industry investments in exploration and production and job cuts.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2016/04/19-permanent-trust-funds-fracking-revenues-saha-muro

Busted: State budgets feel fracking crash (Devashree Saha, Mark Muro, Brookings)

In a previous blog, we showed how declining oil and gas rig counts portend more job cuts in the fracking patch. Now let’s look at the budget side of the problem, which provides more evidence that resource extraction-oriented states really do need to “remake economic development,” as our colleague Amy Liu has written.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/04/14-state-budgets-fracking-crash-saha-muro

Rigged: Declining U.S. oil and gas rigs forecast job pain (Devashree Saha, Mark Muro, Brookings)

Oil and gas prices remain at rock-bottom, and the job impacts are growing. Bureau of Labor Statistics data report that employment in oil and gas extraction and support activities in the country has contracted by 18 percent over the past year alone.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/03/16-declining-us-oil-gas-rigs-saha-muro

Regulatory reform can ease access to jobs (Mark Muro, Devashree Saha, Brookings)

The importance of regulatory streamlining to economic inclusion hasn’t always been apparent. Lately, however, its relevance has been coming into greater focus.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/02/11-regulatory-drag-access-jobs-muro-saha