by Near Zero | Aug 25, 2019 | Blog |
Near Zero alumnus Josh Lappen’s op-ed, “DWP is about to commit Los Angeles to a dirty natural gas power plant it doesn’t want or need,” was published by the LA Times on August 25, 2019. Congratulations, Josh! Blog post Photo credit: Alain Duchateau,...
by Michael Mastrandrea | May 23, 2019 | Blog |
Results from the May 2019 WCI auction are now available. Both current and advance auctions sold out in full, at prices slightly higher than in recent auctions. The current auction settled at its highest price ever, $17.45, noticeably higher than the auction floor...
by Near Zero | Feb 20, 2019 | Blog |
In his capacity as the Senate appointee to the state’s Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee, Near Zero’s Danny Cullenward testified before the California Senate Environmental Quality Committee hearing on California’s cap-and-trade program and...
by Michael Mastrandrea | Jan 30, 2019 | Blog |
California’s Cap and Trade Program is expected to be a significant source of revenue in the coming years. Through December 2018, over $9.4 billion had been collected in the State’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), for investment across three primary program...
by Mason Inman | Dec 13, 2018 | Blog |
California’s cap-and-trade program is the cornerstone of the state’s strategy to limit greenhouse gas emissions to 40% below the 1990 level by 2030 as mandated by state law. However, cap-and-trade may not deliver the emissions cuts expected of it because of a problem...
by Danny Cullenward | May 25, 2017 | Blog |
editor’s note: For more on SB 775, a major new California climate bill that Danny Cullenward advised the California Senate on, see an in-depth article by David Roberts for Vox, “California is about to revolutionize climate policy … again.” As the...
by Mason Inman | May 11, 2017 | Blog |
Sen. Bob Wieckowski (left) in a hearing, with David Garcia (right), a consultant for the Senate Environmental Policy Committee Yesterday the California Senate’s Environmental Quality Committee, chaired by Sen. Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont), heard testimony on...
by Danny Cullenward | Apr 3, 2017 | Blog |
Near Zero’s Danny Cullenward gave a joint presentation with Stanford Law School Michael Wara on April 3 at the Stanford Energy Seminar. A video of the full talk is below, following the abstract. Talk abstract: In 2016, as California began its second decade of...
by Danny Cullenward | Jan 10, 2017 | Blog |
Michael Wara and I have a new essay at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the need for new climate legislation to price carbon in California. A recent bill, SB 32, set a deep climate mitigation target for 2030, but left unresolved the question of how to reach...
by Ken Caldeira | Dec 12, 2016 | Blog |
There is a shared departmental coffee pot for my office – and my office is filled with people claiming that they are willing to sacrifice a little bit of their short-term self-interest to help solve the climate problem. The person taking the last cup of coffee is...
