by Michael Mastrandrea | Oct 2, 2017 | Reports |
On October 2, 2017, the Near Zero team—Michael Mastrandrea, Mason Inman, and Danny Cullenward—presented at Stanford’s Energy Seminar, showing results from a retrospective study in-progress. The full video of the talk is below. As California prepares its strategy...
by Danny Cullenward | Apr 10, 2017 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) California’s prospects for meeting mandated targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as described in the Scoping Plan Update issued by the state’s Air Resources Board (ARB), face major sources of uncertainty and risk. This...
by Danny Cullenward | Dec 16, 2016 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) Michael Wara and Danny Cullenward submitted a letter to CARB to comment on technical inadequacies, unbalanced evaluation of carbon taxes, and other shortcomings in the 2030 Scoping Plan Discussion Draft, highlighting six issues: • Analysis of...
by Danny Cullenward | Dec 8, 2016 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) Michael Wara and Danny Cullenward submitted a comment to the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) on the Straw Proposal concerning regional greenhouse gas accounting and market design mechanisms. We write today to express our strong...
by Danny Cullenward | Nov 21, 2016 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) Wara and Cullenward submitted a comment to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) on transparency, policy specificity, and energy forecasting uncertainty in ARB’s draft 2030 Scoping Plan analysis. Our comments today focus on two elements...
by Danny Cullenward | Nov 17, 2016 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) California voters approved Proposition 26 in 2010, amending the state constitution to require a legislative supermajority to raise taxes on any citizen. Proposition 26 strengthened the requirements of Proposition 13, an earlier anti-tax provision...
by Danny Cullenward | Oct 27, 2016 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) Wara and Cullenward submitted a comment to the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) and California Air Resources Board (ARB) on regional greenhouse gas emissions accounting and energy market design proposals presented by CAISO in an...
by Danny Cullenward | Sep 20, 2016 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) Danny Cullenward submitted a formal comment letter to the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) to share his perspective on the relationship between California’s evolving climate policy portfolio and the critical market design questions...
by Danny Cullenward | Sep 19, 2016 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) Michael War and Danny Cullenward submitted a comment letter to the California Air Resources Board (ARB) to address substantive policy and market design considerations in ARB’s proposal for a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions. We...
by Danny Cullenward | Sep 19, 2016 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) Near Zero’s Danny Cullenward and Michael Wara of Stanford Law School submitted a formal comment letter to the California Air Resources Board (ARB) to raise concerns with respect to ARB’s legal authority to extend the cap-and-trade program...
