Dan Ress, a graduate of the University of Colorado Law School, is a senior attorney at the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment, where they provide technical and policy assistance to low-income communities of color in the San Joaquin Valley. Their work focuses on California state climate justice policy, especially oil and gas, carbon management, and carbon markets. Working in coalition, Dan helped pass SB 1137 (Gonzalez 2022), which will end neighborhood oil and gas drilling, and helped enact key legislative community protections for carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS), including a prohibition on using captured carbon for enhanced oil recovery, a moratorium on carbon pipelines, and a requirement for CARB to ensure that carbon capture and removal project operators minimize to the maximum extent technologically feasible all co-pollutant emissions. Dan is also advocating for legislative changes to CARB’s Cap-and-Trade program and Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
Dan Ress
Senior Attorney at the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment