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Ryan Martel
Senior Manager, Policy Program
- email: martel@ceres.org
Ryan Martel is a Senior Manager for the Policy Program at Ceres, where he works with the Investor Network on Climate risk on federal, state, and international climate and clean energy policy.
From 2013 to 2015 Ryan served as the energy and climate policy advisor to Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii, focusing on renewable energy deployment, energy efficiency, and international climate negotiations. Prior to that, he worked for Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico from 2009 to 2013, eventually serving as the Staff Director for the Finance Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure, where he focused on energy tax policy.
Ryan received his master’s degree in Public Policy with a concentration in environmental regulatory policy from Georgetown University and his bachelor’s degree in history and literature from Bowdoin College.
Recent Blog Posts
Carbon Tax Proposal Deserves Attention, But Big Questions Remain
A group of prominent conservative political and thought leaders, under the newly-formed Climate Leadership Council (CLC), recently released a proposal for a carbon fee and dividend model for the U.S. economy that seeks to set the stage for future conservative and bipartisan discussions on tackling climate change.
Big Oil Gearing Up to Battle Electric Vehicles
Tesla recently unveiled the Model 3, a mass market, affordable electric vehicle with a starting price of $35,000 and a two hundred mile range. In just over five days, more than 276,000 people put down $1,000 to reserve their own Model 3, signaling that American appetite for electric vehicles (EVs) is on the rise. That’s good news because GHG emissions from transportation are growing faster than in any other sector in the U.S. and account for about 30 percent of the total. A major shift to electrified vehicles is necessary to give us a fighting chance to meet our climate goals.
Owens Corning Walks the Walk and Talks the Talk at Clean Energy and Efficiency Event
At the end of October I traveled to Toledo, Ohio to celebrate at the headquarters of Owens Corning as they unveiled on a 2.4 megawatt, 11-acre solar array that does double duty in the winter as a canopy over the employee parking lot.
