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Book abstract: Issues of the Day: 100 Commentaries on Climate, Energy, the Environment, Transportation, and Public Health Policy, edited by Ian W.H. Parry and Felicia Day, provides an easy way for students, academics, journalists, policymakers, and the public to learn about the state of a diverse range of policy issues in a succinct, non-technical format. The essays are written by world-renowned scholars, including Wallace E. Oates, Jeffrey Frankel, Kenneth Small, Maureen Cropper, Kevin Murphy, Robert T. Deacon, among many others. The series disseminates the findings of rigorous research on the costs, benefits, and appropriate reform of a wide range of public policies. Among topics covered are air pollution, hazardous waste, voluntary environmental programs, domestic and global climate policy design, fishery management, water quality, endangered species, forest fires, oil security, solar power, road and airport congestion, fuel taxes and fuel economy standards, alternative fuel vehicles, health and longevity, smoking, malaria, tuberculosis, and developing country issues.