MEREDITH FOWLIE is an Associate Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She received an M.Sc. in Environmental Economics from Cornell University in 2000 and a Ph.D. in Environmental and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley in 2006. Her interests lie at the intersection of empirical industrial organization, environmental economics and public policy. Much of her work involves positive and some normative analysis of policy interventions designed to reduce the environmental impacts of energy production and consumption. Her work on the electricity sector has emphasized interactions between electricity markets and emissions permit markets. She is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Environmental and Energy Economics group.