CRS Staff / Executive Team

Prior to joining CRS in January 2008, Arthur was an independent business, energy and environmental writer for more than 25 years, winning many national and regional awards for his energy reporting. He was senior reporter for E&E Publishing's Greenwire.com and editor of the Land Letter. He also frequently wrote for Public Utilities Fortnightly, the California Energy Circuit newsletter and he was Editorial Director for EnergyCentral.com.

He is the author of several books, including: "Soul of the Grid: A Cultural Biography of the California Independent System Operator" and "The Guilty Environmentalist." He also has contributed a chapter on California's contributions to energy innovation to Peter Asmus's forthcoming book "California Energy" set for publication by the University of California Press during 2008.

Ms. Martin has over eighteen years of experience in renewable energy, energy efficiency and distributed generation policy, markets and technology development, and electricity sector and climate change policy and regulation. Ms. Martin is responsible for the overall management of the Green-e Energy and Green-e Climate certification programs, and provides strategic program guidance to all CRS programs and new initiatives.

Ms. Martin is the author of several reports and papers addressing renewable energy and utility policy and technology assessment, resource planning, risk assessment and environmental impacts, and has given numerous public presentations. She earned her B.A. from Pomona College and her Master of Public Policy from Duke University.