This blog post was authored by Lauren Beatty, EDF Economist; Mark Agerton, Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis; and Sophia Salzer, pre-doctoral researcher at UC Davis. From space, parts of West Texas and North Dakota shine brightly at night the same way that sprawling metropolises do. However, the glow isn’t from skyscrapers or highways: it’s from natural gas flares. Flaring — the burning of excess natural … Continue reading The Hidden Price Tag of Flaring: Why Burning Off Natural Gas Costs Society Billions