Keystone XL.

Attitudes of Nebraska Residents on the Proposed Keystone XL Pipeline

Oil & Gas Spotlight

• The transportation and consumption of oil and natural gas in the continental United States may be directly affected by new regulations and legislation, including (1) the Clean Power Plan proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), (2) railcar rules proposed by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and (3) proposed laws related to the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline e...

The Art of Online Persuasion through Design: The Role of Issue Involvement as it Influences Users based on Prior Knowledge

With a goal to investigate the dynamics of online persuasion, this research extends the Elaboration Likelihood Model to determine the relative effects of argument quality as a central route to influence attitude change versus design elements (specifically image appeal, navigation design, and connectedness) as peripheral route cues to attitude change. Results emanating from this research are bas...

The Incidence of an Oil Glut: Who Benefits from Cheap Crude Oil in the Midwest?

Beginning in early 2011, crude oil production in the U.S. Midwest and Canada surpassed the pipeline capacity to transport it to the Gulf Coast where it could access the world oil market. As a result, the U.S. “benchmark” crude oil price in Cushing, Oklahoma, declined substantially relative to internationally traded oil. In this paper, we study how this development affected prices for refined pr...

Sen. Whitehouse sounds alarm on climate change, health.

PROVIDENCE – Brown’s Public Health Research Day in April took on a sense of urgency as Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse delivered a sobering lecture on climate change and its effects on public health “in a time of unprecedented carbon release in the air and oceans.” Introduced by Brown President Christina Paxson, Senator Whitehouse delivered the annual Dr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Barnes Jr. Lecture on the...