About Me

© 2003 Joel Schwartz
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• Visiting Fellow, 1/04 to 1/09
  American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC
  
  
• Senior Scientist and Director of the Air Quality Project, 12/00 to 4/02
  Reason Public Policy Institute, Los Angeles, California
  
  
• Executive Officer, 12/97 to 12/00
  California Inspection and Maintenance Review Committee, Sacramento, California
  
  
• Senior Policy Analyst, 6/95 to 12/97
  Legislative Analyst's Office, Sacramento, California
  
  
• Special Consultant, 8/94 to 6/95
  California Inspection and Maintenance Review Committee, Sacramento, California
  
  
• Environmental Consultant, 1/94 to 8/94
  RAND Corporation, Division of Social Policy, Santa Monica, California
  South Coast Air Quality Management District, Diamond Bar, California
  

• Staff Scientist, 5/91 to 1/94
  Coalition for Clean Air, Los Angeles, California

  
  
• Graduate Student, 9/87 to 4/91
  Division of Geology and Planetary Sciences,
  California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
  
  
• Research Associate, 6/86 to 5/87
  Laboratory for Planetary Studies,
  Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

• California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
  Master of Science in Planetary Science, June 1990
  
  
• Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences, Ithaca, New York
  Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry, June 1986
  

 
    TESTIMONY

"Ethanol and Air Pollution," testimony to the Minnesota Senate Environment Committee, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2, 2005.

"Reducing In-Use Vehicle Emissions," invited testimony to the Governing Board of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, San Francisco, California, June 5, 2002.

"Vehicle Emissions Inspection and Pollution Transport Mitigation in the San Francisco Bay Area," comments to the California Air Resources Board, September 26, 2001.

"Vehicle Scrap Programs in California," comments to the California Air Resources Board, August 9, 2001.

"Concerns Regarding EPA's I/M Evaluation Guidance," comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, July 15, 1999.

"Analysis and Recommendations on the MOBILE6 Vehicle Emissions Model," comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, July 15, 1999.

"Charter School Performance," invited testimony to the California Senate Education Committee, December 18, 1997.

"The 1997-98 K-12 Budget Proposal," testimony to the California Assembly and Senate budget subcommittees and the Budget Conference Committee, several appearances, Winter-Spring 1997.

"The 1996-97 K-12 Budget Proposal," testimony to the California Assembly and Senate budget subcommittees and the Budget Conference Committee, several appearances, Winter-Spring 1996.

"Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance: Comments on the U.S. EPA's 50-Percent Effectiveness Discount for Decentralized I/M Programs," invited testimony presented before the United States House of Representatives, Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, March 23, 1995.

"Analysis and Recommendations on California's Smog Check Program," report of the blue-ribbon Commission on Vehicle Inspection Programs before the California Senate Transportation Committee, August 1993.

"Cleaning the Air with an Improved Smog Check Program," invited testimony to the California Assembly Transportation Committee, February 16, 1993.

"The Emissions Inventory and the CO Plan," testimony to the South Coast Air Quality Management District Governing Board, November 6, 1992.

"SCAQMD's 1991 Air Quality Management Plan," testimony to the California Air Resources Board, October 16, 1992.

"Comments on the SCAQMD's RECLAIM Pollution Trading Program," testimony to the South Coast Air Quality Management District Governing Board, July 10, 1992.

"Comments on Cal/EPA's Reorganization and Permit Streamlining Plan," comments to the California Environmental Protection agency, May 27, 1992.

"Marketable Permits: A Phased Approach," comments to the South Coast Air Quality Management District and the California Air Resources Board, March 5, 1992.

"Comments on the Final Draft of LACTC's Congestion Management Program," comments to the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, October 15, 1991.

     PRESENTATIONS

"No Way Back: Why Air Pollution Will Continue to Decline," invited presentation at the American Enterprise Institute/Pacific Research Institute Earth Day Conference, Washington, DC, April 21, 2003.

"Air Pollution: Trends, Health Effects, and Current Issues," invited presentation at the Association for Private Enterprise Education Conference, Las Vegas, April 8, 2003.

"How to Clean the Air," invited presentation at the Preserving the American Dream conference, Washington, DC, February 25, 2003.

"Institutional Problems in Air Pollution Policy," invited presentation at the Preserving the American Dream conference, Washington, DC, February 25, 2003.

"OBD and the Future of Smog Check," invited presentation at the California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance, Summer Issues Seminar, Lake Tahoe, California, July 31, 2001.

"Electric Vehicles and Air Quality," invited presentation at the California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance Summer Issues Seminar, Lake Tahoe, California, July 31, 2001.

"Making Vehicle Inspection Programs More Effective, Less Expensive, and More Convenient," invited presentation to the Commissioners of Butler County, Ohio, July 23, 2001.

"The Role of I/M in Improving Air Quality," invited presentation to the Texas Clean Air Force, Dallas, December 13, 2000.

"Evaluating and Improving Smog Check," invited presentation to the California Air Pollution Control Officers Association, Sacramento, September 20, 2000.

"Evaluating and Improving Smog Check," invited presentation at the California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance, Summer Issues Seminar, Lake Tahoe, California, July 20, 2000.

"I/M Programs: A Look at Where We've Been and Where We're Going," invited presentation to the National Research Council on its review of vehicle emissions inspection programs, February 15, 2000.

"Improving Evaluation of Mobile Source Policies," invited presentation to the National Research Council on its review of EPA's mobile source emissions factor model, March 4, 1999.

"Designing Effective I/M Programs," presented at the 1998 Air and Waste Management Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, June 16, 1998.

"Class-Size Reduction: First-Year Results," invited presentation at the California Education Research Association annual conference, Sacramento, May 1997.

"Meeting Environmental Goals through Market-Based Regulation," invited presentation at the "RECLAIM: Pioneering Market-Based Air Regulation" conference, Los Angeles, May 12, 1993.

"RECLAIM," invited presentation to the Los Angeles Business Council, November 9, 1992.

"Regulations vs. Market Incentives: Which Work Best?" invited presentation at the Association for Commuter Transportation, Southern California Chapter Regional Conference, June 11, 1992.

"Distribution of Scatterers in Triton's Atmosphere," J. M. Schwartz, J. B. Pollack and K. Rages, 22nd Annual Meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, Charlottesville, Virginia, October 1990.

"Physical and Chemical Processing of Gas and Grains in the Solar Nebula Accretion Disk," J. M. Schwartz and D. J. Stevenson, 21st Annual Meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, October 1989.

"Radiation Chemistry in Nitrogen-Rich N2/CH4 Atmospheres at Moderate to Low Pressures: The Atmospheres of Titan, Triton and Pluto," W. R. Thompson, T. Henry, J. M. Schwartz, B. N. Khare and C. Sagan, Origin and Evolution of Planetary and Satellite Atmospheres, Tucson, Arizona, March 1987.

"Radiation Chemistry in H2/He/CH4 Atmospheres: Laboratory Results at Moderate to Low Pressures and High Hydrogen Dilution," B. N. Khare, W. R. Thompson, E. T. Arakawa, J. M. Schwartz and C. Sagan, Origin and Evolution of Planetary and Satellite Atmospheres, Tucson, Arizona, March 1987.

"Laboratory Simulations of Organic Chemistry in Irradiated Planetary Atmospheres," W. R. Thompson, B. N. Khare, T. Henry, L. Flynn and J. M. Schwartz, Laboratory Measurements for Planetary Science, Meudon, France, November 1986.

    BOARDS AND PANELS

• Participant in the California Environmental Dialogue's Clean Air Dialogue (2000-present).

• Member of the Advisory Board and Expert Reviewer, American Council on Science and Health (2001-present).

• Expert Reviewer for the University of California Transportation Center's research grant program (1999-2001).

• Expert Reviewer for the National Academy of Sciences evaluation of vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance programs and policy (2001).

• Expert Reviewer of submitted papers for the Transportation Research Board's annual meeting (2001).

• Member of the California Little Hoover Commission's Charter Schools Advisory Panel (1995-1996).

• Member of a Legislature-appointed blue-ribbon commission that evaluated California's vehicle emissions inspection policy options and made recommendations to the Legislature (1993).

• Member of the Advisory and Steering Committees for the development of the Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM), a pollution trading market for nitrogen and sulfur oxides in the South Coast Air Quality Management District (1991-1993).

• Member of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Congestion Management Advisory Committee (1992-1993).

• Participant in EPA regulatory negotiation FACA (Federal Advisory Committee Act) committee on architectural coatings regulation (1992-1993).

• Member of the Sequoia Group, a forum for business leaders, environmentalists, and regulators to informally discuss and attempt to reach consensus on air pollution and transportation issues (1991-1993).

• Peer-Reviewer for Journal of Geophysical Research (1991).

    PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Chemical Society

Air and Waste Management Association

American Geophysical Union

American Meteorological Society