Organizations Filed Purposes:
TO IMPROVE ENVIRONMENTAL, ENERGY, AND NATURAL RESOURCE DECISIONS THROUGH IMPARTIAL ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND POLICY ENGAGEMENT.
RFF'S RESEARCH AND POLICY ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS ARE FOCUSED ON OPTIMIZING THE REDUCTION OF CARBON EMISSIONS AND OTHER POLLUTANTS, MEASURING IMPACTS, AND DESIGNING STRATEGIES FOR ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCE, ESPECIALLY RELATED TO CLIMATE CHANGE. WITHIN THESE BROAD THEMES, SPECIFIC AREAS OF ACTIVITY INCLUDE WORK ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF INNOVATIVE POLICY AND MARKET APPROACHES, INCLUDING: ECONOMYWIDE STRATEGIES SUCH AS CARBON PRICING, AND SECTOR-SPECIFIC EFFORTS IN ELECTRIC POWER, TRANSPORT, INDUSTRY (INCLUDING FUEL PRODUCTION), BUILDINGS, FORESTRY, AGRICULTURE, AND OTHER LAND USES; MEASURING IMPACTS ON SETTLEMENTS AND INFRASTRUCTURE, HUMAN HEALTH, FOOD AND WATER SYSTEMS, AND ECOSYSTEMS, AND DESIGNING STRATEGIES FOR ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCE; AND CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES SUCH AS ECONOMIC AND ENERGY TRANSITIONS, INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES, AND THE INCORPORATION OF EARTH OBSERVATIONS INTO DECISIONMAKING.
COMMUNICATIONS: DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH RESULTS IN THE FORM OF RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS, RESOURCES MAGAZINE, RESOURCES RADIO, THE RFF WEBSITE, AND OTHER METHODS. COMMUNICATIONS ACTIVITIES ADVANCE RFF'S REPUTATION FOR INDEPENDENT RESEARCH AND NON PARTISAN WHILE INFORMING AND SHAPING PUBLIC DEBATE. RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS DISSEMINATED INCLUDE WORKING PAPERS, REPORTS, ISSUE BRIEFS, DATA TOOLS, AND RESEARCH FINDINGS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS.
ACADEMIC RELATIONS: AWARD SMALL GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS TO SCHOLARS FROM OTHER INSTITUTIONS TO ADVANCE THE STATE OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE SCIENCES.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Richard G Newell | President & CEO | 35 | $391,978 |
| Raymond Kopp | VP, Energy and Climate | 35 | $262,630 |
| Teresa Obrien | Vice President, Finance & Administration | 35 | $251,237 |
| Alan Krupnick | Senior Fellow | 35 | $242,860 |
| Paula Wolferseder Yabar | Vice President, Development | 35 | $235,132 |
| Ann M Bartuska | VP, Land, Water, and Nature | 35 | $227,962 |
| Dennis Burtraw | Senior Fellow | 35 | $203,172 |
| Karen Palmer | Senior Fellow | 35 | $200,536 |
| Margaret Walls | Senior Fellow | 35 | $196,815 |
| James Boyd | Senior Fellow | 35 | $191,890 |
| Shannon Wulf Tregar | Chief of Staff | 35 | $138,752 |
| Ross Keith Van Der Linde | Vice President for Communications | 35 | $109,300 |
| Gregory Mcgovern | Vice President, Development (From May 2019) | 35 | $0 |
| Mary Landrieu | DIRECTOR (FROM JUNE 2019) | 1 | $0 |
| Catherine Kling | DIRECTOR (FROM JUNE 2019) | 1 | $0 |
| James Rogers | director (FROM JUNE 2019) | 1 | $0 |
| Jonathan Silver | DIRECTOR | 1 | $0 |
| Kyung-Ah Park | DIRECTOR | 1 | $0 |
| Kathryn D Sullivan | DIRECTOR | 1 | $0 |
| Daniel Esty | DIRECTOR | 1 | $0 |
| Vicky A Bailey | DIRECTOR | 1 | $0 |
| James Asselstine | DIRECTOR | 1 | $0 |
| Robert N Stavins | DIRECTOR | 1 | $0 |
| Elaine Dorward-King | DIRECTOR | 1 | $0 |
| Henry Schacht | DIRECTOR | 1 | $0 |
| Robert Litterman | DIRECTOR | 1 | $0 |
| David G Hawkins | DIRECTOR | 1 | $0 |
| C Boyden Gray | DIRECTOR | 1 | $0 |
| Anthony Bernhardt | DIRECTOR | 1 | $0 |
| Sally Katzen | DIRECTOR | 1 | $0 |
| Ruben Kraiem | Vice Chair | 1 | $0 |
| Susan F Tierney | Chair | 1 | $0 |
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public 990 form dataset) from:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/irs-form-990/202012279349300901_public.xml