His research is in the areas of climate risk governance, environmental information disclosure policy, and environmental policy in U.S. states (e.g., his coauthored book Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance). Currently he is working with colleagues on a three-year study on climate risk governance that intends to understand state-local connections through a polycentric lens. His contributions to the study are both in theory development and on the qualitative components of the project. The study uses a mixed-method approach and tries to make sense of subnational multi-level governance.