Publications

Crying Over Split Milk: Controlling H5N1 in California Dairies
Astrid Elliott, Chloe Haydel Brown, Coleman Sherry, and Jordan Stock, Gina Hervey
White Paper | January 2025

Comments on Draft Dairy Order, SWRCB/OCC FILES A-2283(b)
Gina Hervey, Deborah A Sivas, Michael Wara, Michael Mastrandrea, Amanda Zerbe, Cassandra Jurenci
White Paper | December 2024

Reallocating the Residential California Climate Credit to Low-Income Customers
Lane D. Smith, Michael Mastrandrea, Michael Wara
Policy Brief | December 2024

Building a Robust and Representative Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Workforce
Abigail Varney, Cassandra Jurenci
White Paper | November 2024

The Unseen Competition in the Energy Transition: Acknowledging and Addressing Inter-Utility Competition to Achieve Managed Decarbonization
Joshua Lappen, Michael Wara, Michael Mastrandrea, and Amanda Zerbe
White Paper | September 2024

Grid Regionalization in the West: Reliability Benefits From Increased Cooperation in Electricity Markets and Operations
Mareldi Ahumada-Paras, Michael Mastrandrea, Michael Wara
White Paper | Aug 22, 2024

Wildfire: Assessing and Quantifying Risk Exposure and Mitigation Across Western Utilities
Eric Macomber, Michael Wara, Michael Mastrandrea
White Paper | May 2024

Climate change and utility wildfire risk: A proposal for a federal backstop
Eric Macomber, Michael Wara, Michael Mastrandrea
White Paper | May 2024

Proposed Amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard
Michael Wara, Michael Mastrandrea, Mareldi Ahumada-Paras, Ben Clark
Comment Letter | May 2024

AB 32 Environmental Justice Advisory Committee (EJAC) Meeting Presentation
Michael Wara, Michael Mastrandrea, Mareldi Ahumada-Paras, Ben Clark
Policy Engagement | March 2024

Proposed Amendments to the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard Regulation
Michael Wara, Michael Mastrandrea, Mareldi Ahumada-Paras, Anela Arifi, Chelsea Pardini, William Scott, Amanda Zerbe
Comment Letter | February 2024

Low-intensity Fires Mitigate the Risk of High-intensity Wildfires in California's Forests
Xiao Wu, Erik Sverdrup, Michael Mastrandrea, Michael Wara, and Stefan Wager
Academic Publication | November 2023

The contribution of wildfire to PM2.5 trends in the USA
Marshall Burke, Marissa L. Childs, Brandon de la Cuesta, Minghao Qiu, Jessica Li, Carlos F. Gould, Sam Heft-Neal, and Michael Wara
Academic Publication| September 2023

Local and Utility-Wide Cost Allocations for a More Equitable Wildfire-Resilient Distribution Grid
Zhecheng Wang, Michael Wara, Arun Majumdar, and Ram Rajagopal
Academic Publication | August 2023

California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard: Simulating an EJ Scenario using CARB’s CATS Model
M. Wara, M. Ahumada-Paras, M. Mastrandrea, H. Zhu, C. Morton, R. Chor
Fact Sheet | August 2023

Developing and Supporting the Federal Wildland Fire Workforce
Abigail A. Varney, Samuel Wallace-Perdomo
White Paper | August 2023

Low Carbon Fuel Standard Virtual Community Meetings
M. Wara, M. Ahumada-Paras, M. Mastrandrea, H. Zhu, C. Morton, R. Chor
Policy Engagement | May 2023

The Costs of Building Decarbonization Policy Proposals for California Natural Gas Ratepayers: Identifying Cost-Effective Paths to a Zero Carbon Building Fleet
Alison Ong, Michael Mastrandrea, Michael Wara
White Paper | June 2021

Supporting Information -The Costs of Building Decarbonization Policy Proposals for California Natural Gas Ratepayers: Identifying Cost-Effective Paths to a Zero Carbon Building Fleet
Alison Ong, Michael Mastrandrea, Michael Wara
White Paper | June 2021

The Changing Risk and Burden of Wildfire in the United States
Marshall Burke, Anne Driscoll, Sam Heft-Neal, Jiani Xue, Michael Wara
Research Brief | May 2021

Accounting for the Greenhouse Gas Emission Intensity of Regional Electricity Transfers
Gregory Von Wald, Danny Cullenward, Michael D. Mastrandrea, and John Weyant
Academic Publication | May 2021

A New Strategy for Addressing the Wildfire Epidemic in California
Michael Wara
White Paper | April 2021

The Changing Risk and Burden of Wildfire in the United States
Marshall Burke, Anne Driscoll, Sam Heft-Neal, Jiani Xue, Jennifer Burney, and Michael Wara
Academic Publication | January 2021

The Changing Risk and Burden of Wildfire in the United States
Marshall Burke, Anne Driscoll, Sam Heft-Neal, Jiani Xue, Jennifer Burney, Michael Warae
Journal Publication | November 2020

Removing Legal Barriers to Building Electrification
Deborah Sivas, Michael Wara, Nicholas Wallace, Amanda Zerbe
White Paper | October 2020

Analyzing California's Framework for Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with Retail Electricity Sales
Gregory Von Wald, Michael D. Mastrandrea, Danny Cullenward, and John Weyant
Academic Publication | October 2020

An Open-Source Model of the Western Climate Initiative Cap-and-Trade Programme with Supply-demand Scenarios to 2030
Mason Inman, Michael D. Mastrandrea, and Danny Cullenward
Academic Publication | May 2020

Assessing California's Progress Toward its 2020 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Limit
Michael D. Mastrandrea, Mason Inman, Danny Cullenward
Academic Publication | March 2020

Tracking Banking in the Western Climate Initiative Cap-and-Trade Programt
Danny Cullenward, Mason Inman, and Michael D. Mastrandrea
Academic Publication | December 2019

Net-zero Emissions Energy Systems
Michael Mastrandrea et al.
Academic Publication | June 2018

Competition at the Grid Edge: Innovation and Antitrust Law in the Electricity Sector
Michael Wara
Academic Publication | October 2017