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Sheila Olmstead

@sheilaolmstead.bsky.social
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Environmental economist, Professor @Cornell Brooks Public Policy, Fellow @Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, President @aereorg.bsky.social. Views are my own. sites.google.com/view/sheilaolmstead

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Sheila Olmstead @sheilaolmstead.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
How much arsenic is in your drinking water? Maybe a lot less than there used to be, thanks to a 2001 change in the Safe Drinking Water Act! Read the paper, just out in ES&T: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10..... @rff.org @cornellbrooks.bsky.social @lsuagcenter.bsky.social
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Impacts of the U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act Arsenic Rule on Arsenic Occurrence †
This study provides the first retrospective analysis of the causal impacts of the 2001 US Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) Arsenic Rule on arsenic (As) occurrence in public drinking water systems. Using...
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Sheila Olmstead @sheilaolmstead.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Join us at Cornell as a post-doc working on enhanced geothermal systems! Lots of interesting work at the intersection of engineering and economics that will benefit from a new NSF grant and earlier investments in CUBO (sustainablecampus.cornell.edu/living-labor...).
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Sheila Olmstead @sheilaolmstead.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Looking forward to gathering with environmental and resource economists from six continents at the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists in Summer 2026. Submit papers and session proposals between now and Jan. 16!
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Did you know that the COVID-19 pandemic caused ⚡⚡⚡ lighting ⚡⚡⚡ strikes to decline a lot across the globe? Why? Less travel ➡️ fewer anthropogenic aerosols in the air ➡️ fewer clouds ➡️ less lightning. So when the world paused during the pandemic, storms got notably less intense. Cool, eh?
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Sheila Olmstead @sheilaolmstead.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
President Trump has warned CEOs of some of the top U.S. automakers that they had better not raise car prices because of tariffs This gets weirder and weirder as economic policy. Tax imports but don’t allow domestic producers to raise prices? Next stop: production quotas?
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Todd Jones @toddrjones.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Mississippi State Univ. is hiring a tenure-track Econ Assistant Prof w/ August start! Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall). Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768 Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Exciting PhD scholarship opportunity to join our new Thriving Oceans Research Hub www.sydney.edu.au/science/our-.... Looking for candidates with training in social science, fisheries, and/or ecology. Prior publications are helpful. www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
Hyperlink to a PhD scholarship in coral reef fisheries sustainability
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/02/2025
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/02/2025
Two workshop for potential grantees @equitablegrowth.bsky.social #FundSocSci www.tfaforms.com/5164918
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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The Inter-American Development Bank is forming a poverty group, with multiple staff positions. Lead Specialist jobs.iadb.org/job/Economic... Specialist jobs.iadb.org/job/Economic... Great opportunity to help shape the organization's operational & analytical work around poverty reduction.
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Sheila Olmstead @sheilaolmstead.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Served with “freedom fries”?
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Kimberly Clausing @kclausing.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I'll point out that even threatened tariffs can cause price increases as firms accelerate orders/demand in the face of constant supply.
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Sheila Olmstead @sheilaolmstead.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This is strange and wasteful theater. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...
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Trump Officials Release Water in California That Experts Say Will Serve Little Use
Local officials and experts said the water the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began sending downstream on Friday could have been helpful to farmers later this year. President Trump, in an apparent refer...
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Sheila Olmstead @sheilaolmstead.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Great new geospatial data for researchers working on drinking water in the U.S.!
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Sheila Olmstead @sheilaolmstead.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I know this is not the most urgent matter in your feed today, but @AERE members - answer your survey by Friday! Provide input for AERE's future and help choose some swell swag at the same time! @aereorg.bsky.social
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Kristen Broady @kelizbro.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Fellowship Opportunity: The AEA Summer #Economics #Fellowship allows fellows to spend a summer in residence at a sponsoring research institution. The application portal is now open: www.aeaweb.org/committees/s... Application deadline: February 1, 2025. #Econsky
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
How could EPA's finalized power plant rules alter power sector outcomes? Our new study in Science uses nine models to assess impacts of these rules on emissions, generation, and cost. A 🧵 of key takeaways
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Sheila Olmstead @sheilaolmstead.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
@worldresources.bsky.social is hiring a natural resource/environmental economist - looks like a terrific opportunity! See: jobs.jobvite.com/wri/job/obo1...
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World Resources Institute is looking for Senior Environmental Economist.
World Resources Institute is looking for Senior Environmental Economist. Learn more or Jobvite a friend.
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Sheila Olmstead @sheilaolmstead.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
New year, new social media - very excited about joining Bluesky today!
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