Cornell Expert Quotes
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"As Trump showed, even negative buzz is good, especially for front runners, because it can suck attention away from challengers (remember during GOP debate when he talked about his ‘hands’)."
Drew Margolin
Assistant Professor
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“Unfortunately, methane emissions are increasing rapidly, and the oil and gas industry is clearly part of the problem. My research concluded that shale gas development in North America alone has been responsible for one third of the total increase in global methane emissions over the past year.”
Media:
Jeff Tyson
jeff.tyson@cornell.edu
(607) 793-5769
Related Tip Sheet:
Trump rollback of methane regulations ‘dangerously reckless’ (08/11/20)
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"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposed rule both undermines its organizational mission to protect birds and falls short of its stated aim to provide regulatory certainty for industry.”
Media:
Jeff Tyson
jeff.tyson@cornell.edu
(607) 793-5769
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“This huge North African dust plume crossing the Atlantic is causing substantial air quality problems across the Caribbean, and looks like it may well cause higher particulates in the atmosphere in the southeastern U.S."
Media:
Jeff Tyson
jeff.tyson@cornell.edu
(607) 793-5769
Related Tip Sheet:
Dust plume may mean weaker hurricanes, heartier ocean ecosystem (06/25/20)
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"In the short term, investments in alternative energy are likely to be strongly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing oil price war between two of the biggest oil producers in the world."
Media:
Jeff Tyson
jeff.tyson@cornell.edu
(607) 793-5769
Related Tip Sheet:
Renewables take a blow from coronavirus, but recovery expected (03/31/20)
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"Given the financial assets that Barclays commands around the world and given the economic and financial challenges the world faces during these challenging times, their commitment to these goals and their commitment to them now are important for the initiative to sustain its needed momentum."
Media:
Jeff Tyson
jeff.tyson@cornell.edu
(607) 793-5769
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“While our collective attention is focused on the pandemic now, and is likely to be in the coming months, the climate change issue is unfolding at a completely different time scale."
Media:
Jeff Tyson
jeff.tyson@cornell.edu
(607) 793-5769
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“The federal decision to exercise eminent domain for floodplain buyouts is a bold move, but also completely uncoordinated with other federal and state policies."
Media:
Jeff Tyson
jeff.tyson@cornell.edu
(607) 793-5769
Related Tip Sheet:
Trump floodplain buyout plan bold, but ‘uncoordinated’ (03/12/20)
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“The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposal, however it resolves, sets a precedent for how the country responds to long-term sea level rise and storm surge."
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Jeff Tyson
jeff.tyson@cornell.edu
(607) 793-5769
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“New York’s plastic bag ban borrows from best practices in that it's a hybrid system that involves both a ban and a fee on alternatives. Where the law could be improved is in allowing counties to impose a higher fee – closer to the actual costs of plastic bag clean up. New York has set its optional county fee too low at five cents, with only two cents of that amount going to the county. Had New York state increased that fee, it could have left more of those funds in the hands of counties, which bear the costs of waste management and recycling.”
Media:
Lindsey Hadlock
lmh267@cornell.edu
607-269-6911
Related Tip Sheet:
NYS plastic bag ban key but fees, loopholes are cause for concern (02/19/20)
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"The urban transportation sector contributes to various negative health outcomes including cancers, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, and premature mortality. The sector is also the main greenhouse gas emissions sources – 29% in the U.S. – causing climate change."
Media:
Jeff Tyson
jeff.tyson@cornell.edu
(607) 793-5769
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