How Should Oil Companies Adapt to a Carbon Constrained World?
Last week my colleagues released a report on the failure of major fossil fuel companies to make a clean break from disinformation on climate science and policy, or to plan adequately for a world free...
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The Bioeconomy in a World Without Carbon Pollution
Reaching the climate targets set in Paris will require dramatic action from all sectors of the economy over a period of several decades. While energy and transportation are the largest sources of U.S....
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What’s Congress Doing to our Methane Waste Regulations?
Yesterday I spoke at a forum in the Capitol on the Bureau of Land Management’s Methane Waste Rule, an event organized by Democratic members of the House Natural Resources Committee. I offered testimony...
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President Trump’s Executive Orders Promise Energy Independence, But Deliver...
As President Trump and the Republicans on Capitol Hill are quickly learning, developing real public policy is a lot more complicated than repeating popular slogans to excited fans on the campaign...
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Oregon’s Clean Fuels Program Off to a Great Start
Oregon’s Clean Fuels Program (CFP) was initially authorized by the legislature in 2009, with subsequent legislation in 2015 allowing the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to fully...
View ArticlePruitt’s EPA Undermines Cellulosic Biofuels and Transparency in Government
As the New York Times recently reported, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has been conducting much of his work to undermine the EPA’s mission in secret. The recent proposed rule implementing the...
View ArticleSetting the Record Straight on EVs and Biofuels
Late last week I submitted a response to an article critical of UCS analysis on electric vehicles that appeared in Biofuels Digest on October 2nd. The editor graciously printed my response in full on...
View ArticlePruitt Steps Up His Attack on Biofuel Policies
It was just 6 weeks ago I last posted on how Pruitt’s EPA Undermines Cellulosic Biofuels and Transparency in Government, and I hoped to shift my attention to other topics. But in late September, the...
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California’s Clean Fuels Standard Poised to Get Even Better
Next month, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to extend and strengthen the state’s pioneering Low Carbon Fuels Standard (LCFS). The LCFS works in concert with other...
View ArticleUnwinding the Perverse Arithmetic of Scott Pruitt’s Small Refinery Exemptions...
Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is gone, but the messes he created will be with us for a long time. His approach to the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) took an already complicated policy and turned...
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California’s Clean Fuel Policies Clear Roadblocks to Electric Vehicles
The fight against climate change will be won or lost depending on how successful we are at decarbonizing the transportation sector. Transportation is the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions...
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When Will Autonomous Vehicles be Safe Enough? An interview with Professor...
Autonomous vehicle (AV) supporters often tout safety as one of the most significant benefits of an AV-dominated transportation future. As explained in our policy brief Maximizing the Benefits of...
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Do Shell’s New Climate Commitments Make the Grade?
Last week Royal Dutch Shell announced that in addition to its long-term plans for decarbonization by 2050, it would set goals and track progress on its carbon footprint on a short-term basis and link...
View ArticleWashington State Tackles Transportation Emissions
The climate crisis demands an immediate response on multiple fronts, and while in Washington DC the Trump administration is attempting to reverse the progress of the last administration, in Washington...
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Five Reasons Midwestern States Need a Clean Fuel Standard
This week I joined the Great Plains Institute, the American Coalition for Ethanol and many other stakeholders in calling for Midwestern states to adopt clean fuel standards to cut transportation...
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Five Things You Should Know About Lyft and Uber’s Climate Impacts (and what...
Ride hailing services like Lyft and Uber have been changing the way people get around. My colleagues and I just released a short report – Ride-Hailing’s Climate Risks: Steering a Growing Industry...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard Accelerating Transportation...
Last month California electric utilities launched the California Clean Fuel Rewards Program, a statewide point-of-sale electric vehicle rebate program worth up to $1,500 per vehicle (depending upon...
View Article5 Reasons Clean Fuel Standards are the Secret Key to Decarbonizing...
Clean Fuel Standards like the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) have been around for more than a decade but have not attracted the attention of more narrowly targeted policies promoting...
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A Transformative Climate Action Framework for Transportation
Addressing the climate crisis requires major changes in our cars, trucks and fuels, but ensuring that all people share equitably in the benefits and burdens of the transportation systems requires more...
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Why Are Gasoline Prices So Volatile?
When gasoline prices rise, as they have since the winter of 2020, or spike dramatically, as they have with the war in Ukraine, people naturally want to know why it happened and what we should do about...
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