Center News and Notes

Since its founding two decades ago, the Bill Lane Center has become a thriving community of students and researchers who examine the American West in all its complexities.

In 2021, we interviewed Buzz Thompson about a newly-launched California water market, seen primarily as a tool to help farmers hedge against water price increases. Now, Thompson has co-authored a study proposing an "environmental" water market with…

Backers say Small Modular Reactors promise safe, cheap, carbon-free energy. But as is common in nuclear power, the reality is more complicated. The small city of Kemmerer, Wyoming, is set to house the first U.S. commercial-scale SMR demonstration.

New research out of Stanford's Bill Lane Center for the American West highlights progress and challenges in municipal fleet electrification under California’s Advanced Clean Fleet rule.