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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Happy July 1. And farewell to the IRA's tax credit for commercial electric vehicle charging stations. I wonder if it worked. (Watch this space.)
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Fabulous insight. US domestic carbon taxes would increase US GDP because the US exports carbon-intensive goods with market power. Domestic carbon taxes would effectively tax US exports, raising global prices and harming foreign consumers. www.nber.org/papers/w35307
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Are carbon tariffs climate policy?
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Economists! On late night TV!
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Hoover Institution @hooverinstitution.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
🟢🗓️ Tues, May 12 @ Hoover How do economic policy choices shape environmental outcomes? What happens when policy shifts from federal to state regulation? Hear leading voices debate what works—and what doesn’t—at Hoover’s Markets vs. Mandates conference. Open to the public.
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Markets Vs. Mandates: Promoting Environmental Quality And Economic Prosperity
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
One of my all-time favorite papers is now also an AEA Best Paper award winner: AEJ: Applied Economics: "Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon? by Raphael Calel, @jmcolmer.bsky.social , Antoine Dechezleprêtre, and Matthieu Glachant January 2025 www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho....
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AEJ Best Paper Awards
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The @washingtonpost.com and @nytimes.com editorial boards are debating congestion pricing. Guess which one's position rests on experience, data, and evidence? WaPo: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...
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Opinion | Congestion pricing would cripple downtown D.C.
Mayoral candidates see drivers as enemies as they declare war on cars.
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Wait! What generates the electricity necessary to capture the CO2 to put in your beer? Burning coal or gas, right? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...
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There’s a New Place to Store Greenhouse Gases: In Your Beer
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Catie Hausman @catiehausman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
New paper on oil & gas! We look at aging, low production, low profitability wells. U r probably thinking it’s a poorly timed paper release - we’re all thinking about high oil prices now. But new drilling is exactly when u should first start thinking about... www.nber.org/papers/w34961 1/N
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Happy Birthday JCT
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Kavanaugh’s dissent says IEEPA’s text allowing the president to “regulate … importation” includes the power to tax imports. Would he agree that the Clean Air Act’s directive that the EPA “Administrator shall regulate" pollution from electric utilities includes the power to tax their emissions?
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
6) from @adriandeveny.bsky.social "If the federal government wants to more heavily regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Congress needs to pass a new law." The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 explicitly amended the Clean Air Act to designate six greenhouse gases as air pollutants.
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The new WaPo is wrong, wrong, wrong in so many ways. Let's count: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Tariffs on solar panels have been even worse than I thought. Never mind the environmental cost, the pass-through rate to US consumers was more than 100%. Each $1 of tariff cost US solar customers $1.17.
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
And a federal judge tossed the report. Not because it's junk science, but because of a DOE process foul selecting the junk scientists who authored it. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c...
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A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I watched and learned as @chadpbown.com explains trade policy (nicely) to @pkrugman.bsky.social. (Love the screen grab, too.) youtu.be/kVZMns6NuVI?...
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Talking with Chad Bown
YouTube video by Paul Krugman
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Economists make climate policy seem so straightforward.
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Kyle Meng @kylemeng.com · 13/01/2026
If you you miss reading a proper cost-benefit analysis of environmental policy, one that fully accounts for costs AND benefits, here's California CARB's proposed GHG cap-and-invest regulations, dropped at noon. No "we won't value public health benefits just because they're uncertain" shenanigans.
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Cap-and-Invest Regulation | California Air Resources Board
Proposed 2026 Amendments to the Cap-and-Invest (formerly Cap-and-Trade) Regulation The preliminary documents posted below have been submitted to the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) and may be modif...
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Pre-ordered mine. 5 months early. Because I'll read anything by these two explainers. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/...
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How to Win a Trade War: An Optimistic Guide to an Anxious Global Economy
How to Win a Trade War: An Optimistic Guide to an Anxious Global Economy [Keynes, Soumaya, Bown, Chad] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. How to Win a Trade War: An Optimistic Guide to an Anxious Global Economy
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Pepco (Exelon) send me this unhelpful alert, informing me that I spent more on electricity this month than last. But guess what? I used *less* electricity. I spent more because the company charged me more. Thanks for nothing, @exelonofficial.bsky.social.
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AERE @aereorg.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "Decarbonizing Aviation: Cash-for-Clunkers in the Airline Industry" by Jan K. Brueckner, Matthew E. Kahn ( @mattkahn1966.bsky.social ), and Jerry Nickelsburg. Read it here: buff.ly/JExG0Iz 📈📉 #Econsky
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Catherine Wolfram @cwolfram.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
More news on CBAM expansion plans. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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EU to extend carbon border levy to new products, drafts show
The European Union plans to expand its upcoming carbon border tariff to cover imported products including car parts, refrigerators, and washing machines, draft European Commission documents seen by Re...
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
It's even worse than Max humorously gripes. Can anybody look at Max's bill and calculate his incremental cost per kWh? [ChatGPT tells me it's "approximately $0.65 per kWh.]
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Richard Tol @richardtol.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
All is not well at Elsevier richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...
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Fraud and cover-up
Fraud and cover-up
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Luis Fernández Intriago @ifal78.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
🌍 Are you in the market? Dream postdoc opportunity for environmental economists! @envdefensefund.bsky.social + @ucsb.bsky.social's @emlab.ucsb.edu are hiring 2-3 postdocs to work on carbon markets, nature-based solutions & resource economics with Chris Costello (emLab Director/EDF Chief Economist).
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Environmental and Resource Economics Postdoctoral Scholar (up to 3 positions), Environmental Markets Lab (emLab), University of California Santa Barbara
University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!
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Severin Borenstein @severinborenstein.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Not sure how this got past the administration's communication controls, but EIA had a nice piece last Friday on the increasing role of solar/wind/batteries in Texas. www.eia.gov/todayinenerg... 🔌💡
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ERCOT increasingly meets rising demand with solar, wind, and batteries - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Jim Sallee gives a master class in how to explain complex policy in simple prose. I'm definitely assigning this to students.
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AERE @aereorg.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
✨ We will be featuring the 2025 AERE Scholars & Mentors over the coming weeks! Stay tuned to learn more about the amazing cohort! ✨
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Ok so the Trump administration blew up the international agreement to tax CO2 from shipping. 14 years ago the Obama administration successfully opposed applying the EU carbon price to US airlines operating in Europe. Just because Ds and Rs both agree on something doesn't mean it's right.
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Great news! Andrew Plantinga will be succeeding Nick Kuminoff as one of the four editors of @jaereaere.bsky.social starting January 1. Compensation for the less great but inevitable news that Nick's term must end. Thanks Nick and welcome Andrew. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jaere/cu...
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Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | Vol 12, No 6
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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Hey #EconSky working in environmental econ! Looking for things to do this weekend? Why not write up a 2-3 page proposal for a cool conference-publication combo, happening in May 2025 in Washington, DC? Submit your proposal (or paper) here by Oct 20: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...
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Submission: 8th Annual NBER Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy Conference, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBER
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Georgetown Center for Economic Research @gcer-gu.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🎉 Congratulations to Professor Ivana Komunjer on being elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society @econometric.bsky.social one of the highest distinctions in the field of economics! Since 1931, only 1,254 scholars have received this honor 🧵 [1/3]
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Head-scratching WaPo article says solar tax credits are slowing adoption, and ending them will (by mid-century) result in more solar panels on roofs. Explain *that*, Econ 101 professors. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Column | Solar tax credits are ending. Here’s why that could be good for solar.
It could force the industry to address the issues that have made installing solar more expensive in the U.S. than elsewhere in the developed world.
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
A bittersweet day. Long-time EPA chief economist and @aereorg.bsky.social fellow @AlMcGartland (other site) is retiring. His dedication to practical, public-spirited, and good-humored policymaking will be missed at the EPA. Here's hoping his voice continues to be heard and influence felt.
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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Its not just climate science that's wrong in DOE's dreadful climate report - the economics is terrible too! salatainstitute.harvard.edu/environmenta...
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Environmental economists respond to Trump administration climate report - The Salata Institute
The economists tell the Department of Energy that its findings are “woefully out of date” and rely on “an array of fallacies.”
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
ICE and DHS are proposing (again!) to limit student visas to 4 years before requiring reauthorization. Makes no sense for PhD programs. See something, say something. Comment here by Sept 29. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media
Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...
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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
DOE's embarrassment of a "climate science" report is 150 pages where as this response from the scientific community is 500. My take: It takes much more effort to refute nonsense than it does to generate it, a tax on the time of all who care about fact and accuracy sites.google.com/tamu.edu/doe...
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DOEresponseSite
On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding...
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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process. There's still time to sign! And please share. #EconSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Open letter
Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Three amazing points in one paragraph of the DOE report on GHGs. www.energy.gov/articles/dep... 1/3 The Social Cost of Carbon "is not intended to measure the private marginal benefits ... of fossil fuels." Correct! (But not relevant. That's why it's the called the Social *Cost* of Carbon.)
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
👇especially #6 and #7. 6. Clear writing comes from clear thinking. 7. If readers don’t understand your writing, that’s your fault, not theirs.
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Published papers can become suddenly more important. This 2017 paper is among the most read and cited #JAERE papers in the last 12 months. *Subsidizing EV charging stations would be twice as effective as subsidizing EVs.* By Shanjun Li, Lang Tong, Jianwei Xing, and Yiyi Zhou tinyurl.com/bhrt3zsj
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The Market for Electric Vehicles: Indirect Network Effects and Policy Design | Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists: Vol 4, No 1
Abstract The market for plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) exhibits indirect network effects due to the interdependence between EV adoption and charging station investment. Through a stylized model, we d...
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Brander and Taylor (1988): tariffs on imports of open-access resources can be pareto-improving. Now @prakrati.bsky.social shows the converse empirically in #JAERE. Bans on environmental service exports (waste imports) can be environmentally beneficial. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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Global Impact of a Unilateral Waste Trade Regulation | Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists: Vol 0, No ja
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Believe it or not, this magnified inset of a new #JAERE figure demonstrates "solar rebound" from net metering. Residential rooftop solar panels can -- in theory -- increase electricity use. Matthew Oliver, @jmorenocruz.bsky.social , and Ken Gillingham. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
Figure 4. Income expansion path under different remuneration rates.
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Those annoying text messages work. State government appeals to save energy largely failed when broadcast over radio and television, but succeeded via text. New in #JAERE from Dylan Brewer and Jim Crozier. cc: @aereorg.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Who heeds the call to conserve in an energy emergency? Evidence from smart thermostat data | Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists: Vol 0, No ja
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I wear mine often. Good shirt; good cause.
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
WaPo op-ed supports Carbon Tariffs for three reasons (and my rebuttals): 1. Revenue (that's all tariffs, not just carbon tariffs) 2. Protect US industry (again, all tariffs) 3. The US has no domestic carbon price (huh?) wapo.st/46bDgWo
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Opinion | A carbon tariff is the right way to confront China on trade
Climate-friendly tariffs would penalize countries that undercut U.S. companies with dirtier production.
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Tax cuts that balance the federal budget: Year 1) Pass 10-year budget that cuts taxes in yr 1 and raises them in yrs 2-10. Year 2) Treat yr 1 as baseline, pass new budget that cuts taxes in yr 2 and raises them in yrs 3-11. Year 3) Treat yr2 as baseline, .... you get the idea. Problem solved!
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Is the double dividend back? Maybe if we include distributional concerns, according to Frederick van der Ploeg, Armon Rezai, and Miguel Tovar Reaños in @jaereaere.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Third-Best Carbon Taxation: Trading Off Emission Cuts, Equity, and Efficiency | Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists: Vol 12, No 4
Abstract We analyze carbon taxes, lump-sum climate dividends, and changes to the level and progressivity of the income tax system that optimally trade off carbon emissions, equity, and efficient raisi...
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Arik Levinson @ariklevinson.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Efficient solar investment depends not only on *where* panels are installed, but *when*. Insightful new paper in ‪@jaereaere.bsky.social‬ by Nicolas Astier and Nicolas Hatem. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Dynamic (Mis)allocation of Investments in Solar Energy | Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists: Vol 12, No 4
Abstract Because they differ in terms of technology, size, and location, solar photovoltaic installations exhibit very heterogeneous levelized costs of producing electricity. Therefore, the present va...
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
NEW: Judge orders release of Georgetown's Badar Khan Suri, saying Trump admin went after him on social media but produced no evidence he's affiliated with Hamas or poses a danger. DOJ said case belongs in immigration court not USDC. w/@kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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Catherine Wolfram @cwolfram.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
UK sanctioning "as many as 100 oil tankers that it says are part of a shadow fleet of vessels helping Russia to move its oil," which could expand the number of ships the country has designated by up to 75%. With increased enforcement and lower oil prices, It would be a great time to lower the cap.
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UK to Sanction Up to 100 Oil Tankers in Russia’s Shadow Fleet
The UK sanctioned senior executives in an oil trading network it says has been helping Moscow keep exports flowing, part of sweeping measures that will also include up to 100 ships.
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