Gabriel Lade, assistant professor, appeared before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment Wednesday, July 25, 2018. He spoke on the purpose and operation of Renewable Identification Numbers, better known as RINs, as the compliance mechanism for meeting the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) mandates.
Read the written testimony "Background on Renewable Identification Numbers under the Renewable Fuel Standard."
On July 24, Lade presented at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) summer meetings on environmental and energy economics in Cambridge, MA. Lade presented the paper "Costs of Inefficient Regulation: Evidence from the Bakken," coauthored by Ivan Rudik.
The NBER Summer Institute is a three-week gathering of applied economists that takes place in Cambridge, Massachusetts during July each year. All NBER research programs sponsor meetings during the Summer Institute. The Summer Institute typically includes a number of relatively informal meetings that bring together researchers working on a narrowly-focused topic.