Areas of Expertise:

Biofuels, Climate Change, Energy Economics, Environmental Policy, GHGs, Regulation

Additional Areas of Expertise:

Emissions Trading systems

Barry Solomon has been a professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at Michigan Technological University since 1995, where his is the former graduate program director. Before that he was a senior economist at the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency for 11 years. From 1989-1991 he also served as a staff member for the energy studies of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has authored over 200 publications, including 6 books.

Recent Comments by Barry Solomon

• "Corn ethanol is already capped, so that issue is a red herring unless the caps are removed. Biomass has a deserved place at the table for our energy m"
  Should Policymakers Reconsider the Role of Biomass?
• "I don't think that States are likely to consider biomass as a viable compliance option under the Clean Power Plan. While biomass energy should not be "
  What Role Can Biomass Play in the EPA’s Clean Power Plan?