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<< Back To Team Mark Allen Bernstein Energy Supply and Demand Dr. Bernstein is Managing Director of the University of Southern California's Energy Institute and is also a Professor of the Practice of Political Science. He is also a consultant to Proteus Environmental Technologies and assists in strategy and planning. Prior to USC, he served as a Senior Policy Researcher at the RAND Corporation with work on issues in energy, environment, and water including financing efficiency and renewable energy, climate change policy, and technology diffusion and advised the Speaker of the California State Assembly during the 2001 energy problems in California. Dr. Bernstein has worked with both national and international governments on concerns such as financing efficiency and solar water heating, quality and efficient affordable housing in the Gulf Coast region in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and climate change technology strategy. Mark holds a Ph.D. in Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters and Bachelors in Mathematics.

Obama Gets a Menu of Climate Actions He Can Take Without Congress
President Obama could invoke strong climate policies, like gasoline carbon limits, without congressional input before world leaders convene this fall to negotiate an international global warming treaty, a research group says in a plan provided to the administration.

Whitman & Peterson: Climate Bill Should Top the Congress’ To-Do List
As Congress approaches the August recess, our economy, energy and environmental security needs still top the to-do list of the president and Congress. This summer the Center for Climate Strategies and the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition have outlined how Congress can put a national strategy in place that gets all three on the same page: by passing comprehensive national climate change and energy policy that reflects our best policy options for immediate action.

New Climate and Energy Policies Could Create 2.5 Million Jobs, Hold Down Energy Costs
July 22, 2010 -- New greenhouse gas emissions and energy policies at the Federal level could generate as many as 2.5 million new jobs and $134 billion in economic activity in the U.S. while keeping energy costs down, according to a new report from the Center for Climate Strategies, published with Johns Hopkins University.

Colorado legislature raises state RES, move seen creating jobs
A coalition of stakeholders who worked on the Colorado Climate Panel's were critical to the new legislation’s passage. Since investor-owned utilities supply 60% of Colorado’s electricity, this implements most of the Panel recommendation (adopted by the Governor) on renewable energy standards (RES).
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