spent the past year at RFF as a visiting scholar and now joins the research staff full time. He has already published extensively and is working on issues related to the Gulf oil spill.

called the Senate’s failure to act on climate change legislation before the August recess – and the mid-term elections this fall – dismaying, in an August 10 article in ClimateWire. "What is really unfortunate in the public debate [about the value of cap and trade] is that the current Republican leadership has overthrown one of the great Republican successes in this country [under President George H.W. Bush], to capitalize on the flexibility of the marketplace in achieving regulatory change.”

examines the not-in-my-backyard controversies surrounding the siting of renewable energy sources, particularly wind power. Worries about energy sprawl from wind turbines, solar arrays, and new electrical grids are growing, he says, but there are ways to ameliorate them.