Los Angeles Times contributing writer Jacques Leslie quotes me in an op-ed on the oil industry’s influence over California’s cap-and-trade program:
In the face of repeated requests by experts and journalists to show how it will deliver on the state’s 2030 climate law, CARB hasn’t provided a convincing road map or even acknowledged that a problem exists, according to Danny Cullenward, an energy economist and policy director of the climate policy think tank Near Zero. Meanwhile, the Western States Petroleum Assn., the oil industry trade group, has called on CARB to maintain its current course, as it stated in comments to the board on program amendments in 2018.
It’s time for state policymakers to have a serious conversation about whether cap-and-trade is going to drive California’s progress to its 2030 emissions limit, and if not, what they plan to do instead.