I have 40 years of experience and specialize in the field of local economic development with specific knowledge in the areas of energy efficiency, renewable energy economics, Brownfield’s and urban redevelopment and public utility rates and regulations. I have published on such topics as Brownfield’s insurance and contaminated land financing, local economic development policy and the economics of criminal corrections. I have testified 25 times on topics such as utility rates and policies toward ratepayers, Brownfield redevelopment and the costs and benefits of local economic development proposals. I have done extensive comparative work on how business and government policies that appear to be “successes” in some settings fail in others. I have also conducted analyses of how economic and environmental effects are distributed unequally across different populations and ways of addressing the problems.