Deborah Gordon is a senior principal in the Climate Intelligence Program at RMI where she leads the Oil and Gas Solutions Initiative. Gordon also serves as a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and the principal investigator for the Oil Climate Project. Her research has spearheaded the development of the Oil Climate Index Plus Gas (OCI+), a first-of-its-kind analytic tool that compares the lifecycle climate impacts of global oil and gas resources.

"Gordon is trained as a chemical engineer but thinks like an economist." -- Barry Eichengreen, Foreign Affairs

"In No Standard Oil, Deborah Gordon showcases the unrivalled knowledge that she and her Oil Climate Index Plus Gas (OCI+) colleagues have built up of the climate impacts of oil and gas supply. This is essential reading for anyone looking to truly understand how oil and gas contribute to climate change, and how the supply side can help to solve the problem." -- Simon Dietz, Professor of Environmental Policy, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics

"An anatomy of hydrocarbons worthy of Leonardo da Vinci, No Standard Oil dissects the oil and gas industries to rank the sources of damage to the environment, the economic factors at play, how best to tailor efforts to mitigate climate change, who might do it, and the principles for triage in the industry as they do." -- Chas Freeman, Former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia

"Cleaning up today's fuel supply chains is an integral but often overlooked part of the drive towards net zero emissions. Debbie Gordon spells out with admirable clarity the scale of the problem, the huge variations in environmental performance across different parts of the oil and gas industry, and the strategies and data that can make a difference." -- Tim Gould, Chief Energy Economist, International Energy Agency

"Californians have a deep and complicated relationship with oil. The birth of the modern environmental movement coincides with a 1969 oil spill in the Santa Barbara Channel that killed thousands of sea birds and left blobs of tar on the beaches for months. Revenue from oil production on State lands still significant. And combustion of petroleum products for transportation remains the biggest contributor to global warming. The analytical approach described in No Standard Oil provides a sophisticated tool that undergirds California's groundbreaking Low Carbon Fuel Standard, the most effective policy to date for bringing new, more sustainable fuels to market." -- Mary Nichols, Chair of the California Air Resources Board