His main areas of focus are building and appliance efficiency standards as well as the relationship between California’s efficiency regulations and those at the federal level. Michael was previously the Environmental Law Fellow at the California Environmental Law & Policy Center at the UC Davis School of Law, from which he graduated in 2013. In that role, he published a paper analyzing and offering recommendations for SB 4, California’s first legislation addressing hydraulic fracturing. He has also written legal and policy papers on the carbon tax and cap-and-trade. He is originally from the East Coast and spends much of his free time running a Sacramento-based music events company called Lost In Groove.