A writer on energy and the environment, scholar-in-residence at Stanford’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, and a lecturer at Stanford Law School. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Formerly environment editor for the Wall Street Journal, he also writes its Power Shift column on energy and the environment
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