Tara Righetti

Occidental Professor of Energy and Environmental Policies

University of Wyoming

Tara Righetti is the Occidental Chair of Energy and Environmental Policies at the University of Wyoming and the co-director of the Nuclear Energy Research Center. She holds appointments in the School of Energy Resources, and College of Law, and the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources. Professor Righetti's research focuses on property law and administrative regulation of the energy and decarbonization sectors. She was recently appointed as the chair of the White House Federal Lands CCS Permitting Task Force and is a member of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to the International Standardization Organization technical committee for CCUS.