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Bendix quoted in LA Times article CA wildfires, climate change

Jacob Bendix, professor of geography and the environment, is included in the Los Angeles Times article, "California hit by record-breaking fire destruction: 'Climate change is real, it’s bad'."

July 13, 2021

Wilcoxen, CEF team release report on 80×30 clean electricity standard

Charles Driscoll, Kathy Fallon Lambert, Peter Wilcoxen, Armistead Russell, Dallas Burtraw, Maya Domeshek, Qasim Mehdi, Huizhong Shen & Petros Vasilakos

July 11, 2021

See related: Climate Change

Bendix talks to LA Times about CA wildfires, fireworks threat

Jacob Bendix, professor of geography and the environment, specializes in the study of wildfire distribution.

July 8, 2021

Sultana explains why climate, COVID crises need feminism in The Hill

Instead of analyzing the climate change and COVID-19 crises separately, Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment, suggests we learn more by looking at how they intersect.

May 18, 2021

See related: Climate Change, COVID-19, United States

Van Slyke talks to Capital Tonight about fighting climate change

May 10, 2021

Popp Discusses Biden's Infrastructure Plan, Cutting Emissions in Grist

May 6, 2021

Ethan Coffel awarded three-year NSF grant to study climate-crop cycle

Coffel, professor of geography and the environment, hopes to use crop-climate cycles as a way to assess the future risk of climate-driven food insecurity.

April 22, 2021

See related: Agriculture, Climate Change, Grant Awards

Reeher Discusses Biden's Infrastructure Plan in National Interest

Professor Grant Reeher is included in the National Interest article, "Joe Biden to Unveil Infrastructure Package Tomorrow. What Will it Include?"

April 5, 2021

Popp weighs in on Biden's green stimulus spending in NY Times, Guardian

"Unless they can pair it with a policy that forces people to reduce emissions, a big spending bill doesn’t have a big impact," says David Popp, professor of public administration and international affairs. But, he adds, "spending money is politically easier than passing policies to cut emissions."

March 31, 2021

Sultana reviews Global Gobeshona Conference in Dhaka Tribune

"Given that climate change impacts the most vulnerable across the world, yet the voices of the vulnerable are always not heard or heeded sufficiently in high-level planning and decision-making, conferences like the Global Gobeshona Conference enhance opportunities to have different voices and positionalities to be present in spaces of global knowledge sharing," writes Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment.

March 9, 2021

See related: Climate Change, India

Coffel discusses his thermal power and climate research in Ecological Society of America journal

Ethan Coffel, assistant professor of geography and the environment, discusses his recent study on thermal power and climate change in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, a journal of the Ecological Society of America.

March 4, 2021

Popp weighs in on Biden's climate directives in New York Times

David Popp, Caroline Rapking Faculty Scholar in Public Administration and Policy and co-author of a 2020 paper on the employment effects of the Obama-era spending on green job creation, discounted the notion of creating one million new auto manufacturing jobs.

January 28, 2021

Steinberg provides insight into what to expect globally in 2021 on TVO

University Professor James Steinberg was a guest on TVO's "The Agenda" to discuss what he witnessed in 2020 and what he expects will play out around the world in 2021.

January 14, 2021

Coffel explores power and climate struggle in new research paper

Ethan D. Coffel & Justin S. Mankin

January 4, 2021

See related: Climate Change, Energy

Jacobson talks to Politico, Washington Post about Biden's Cabinet picks

Mark Jacobson, assistant dean of Washington programs says that "the [John] Kerry pick [as Biden's special presidential envoy for climate] is really incredible from a structural standpoint." His selection, Jacobson says, is "an admission that our mid-20th century national security structures were not designed to deal with some of the more holistic and potentially existential threats, in this case, climate change."

November 24, 2020

Sultana talks to Scientific American about Biden, climate justice

"The most important action the Biden administration can do is to undertake all its policies and actions through a climate justice lens...and approach action with equity, accountability and justice in mind," says Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment.

November 12, 2020

Sultana comments on Joe Biden's victory in Carbon Brief article

"This was a climate election since a large majority of voters noted that they were concerned with climate breakdown," says Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment. "Biden has a climate plan and a mandate and he has promised to listen to scientists…which is vastly different from the last four years of war on science."

November 10, 2020

Bendix explores solutions to the western wildfire crisis in The Hill

"Recognition of the multiple contributors to the wildfire crisis should enable us to move past the focus on simple solutions — one size does not fit all, and reducing fire impacts will require a mix of approaches that match the geographic and ecological complexity of fire regimes," writes Jacob Bendix, professor of geography and the environment.

October 8, 2020

Sultana participates in international event on climate research

Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment, participated in "Intersectionality and Climate justice: Towards an Emancipatory Climate Research Agenda," an event organized by the Centre for Climate Justice at Glasgow Caledonian University. The international webinar brought together critical scholars interested in climate justice and intersectionality with the aim of exploring common threads between the two concepts.