Garth Heutel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He was a Harvard University Center for the Environment Fellow during academic years 2007-09. His faculty sponsor was Prof. Richard Zeckhauser, the Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a HEEP Faculty Fellow. Dr. Heutel is an economist who studies the dynamic interactions between environmental policies and economic issues. He earned his B.S. in physics and philosophy from the University of Michigan in 2000 and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. His dissertation studied the effect of the Clean Air Act on electric utilities’ decisions to invest in new technologies, developed a model to examine the distribution of the costs of different types of environmental policies, and studied the interaction between public and private funding sources for public goods. As an Environmental Fellow, Dr. Heutel plans to continue modeling and analyzing environmental policies using recently developed computational methods. His first research project at Harvard will examine cases of grandfathering in environmental policies, such as the New Source Review policy of the Clean Air Act or Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for new automobiles.