Danny completed work in the areas of advanced coal technologies and contributed to a significant energy efficiency filing at the CPUC.

Danny’s coal work resulted in a white paper on advanced coal generation technologies and carbon sequestration and their various environmental, technological and economic impacts and challenges. He contributed to testimony, added to regulatory comments, briefed delegates at government hearings, worked on a climate policy presentation for the California Energy Commission, strategized on future energy education and research partnerships at Stanford, and analyzed the success of Portland’s climate policy objectives. This work is particularly timely as there are more than 30 conventional coal plants proposed in the American West. The carbon dioxide from these plants would more than double the current emissions from the entire state of California. Danny’s work contributed directly to the development of NRDC’s policy on coal and its advocacy on California’s policy.

Click on the link below to read Danny's white paper:

Measuring Success: Portland and Multnomah County’s Climate Policy Achievements

Coal Technology Options: Costs, Emissions and Experience for Electricity Generation in a Carbon-Constrained World

“NRDC is a nonprofit organization and a resource such as that provided through this Fellowship program allows us to pursue projects that we would not normally have the resources to address. In this case, the position enabled us to strengthen NRDC’s substantive expertise in a critical policy area. He produced quality work that we will be relying on for months and years to come”

—Sheryl Carter

“I learned more than can be read in books. I watched how people spend their days as analysts, policy advocates, NGO networkers, lobbyists and government advisors. I honed research skills, communications skills and learned new analytic techniques to evaluate a new subject area, power plant costs and emissions.”

—Danny Cullenward