Climate scientist Flavio Lehner comments on newly proposed climate change legislation from the European Union that would include a tax on aviation fuel, a carbon border tariff, emission limits for cars and more.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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The Biden administration is forging ahead with plans to lease federal waters — stretching nearly the entire coastline — to wind power developers. Cornell University researchers are engaged in multiple aspects of this story.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Methane emissions researchers John Albertson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Robert Howarth, a professor of ecology and environmental biology, comment on the development of a new Global Methane Pledge designed to reduce global methane emissions by at least 30% by 2030.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Physical Sciences & Engineering

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Lara Skinner, the executive director of the Worker Institute at Cornell University and an expert on labor and employment issues related to sustainability, comments on a global effort to cut emissions from the shipping industry.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Industrial and Labor Relations

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Amanda Rodewald, senior director of the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, comments on migratory bird protections and the Biden administration's review of a Trump-era restriction to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

Lab of Ornithology

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Robert Howarth, an expert on the greenhouse gas footprint of methane emissions, comments on the Biden administration's plan to ban new oil and gas leasing on federal land.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Arthur Wheaton, an expert on the automotive industry at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, comments on Ford's failure to meet European limits on greenhouse-gas emissions and the company's need to partner with another automaker.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Industrial and Labor Relations

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced guidance for restaurants planning to provide comfort heating for customers dining outdoors during the fall and winter months. Max Zhang an expert in sustainable energy systems says although electric heaters emit no pollutants onsite compared to natural gas and propane heaters, electric heating actually causes more pollution in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

New York City

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Engineering

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David Lodge, an expert on invasive species and a conservation biologist, comments on the discovery of a new invasive worm in Georgia.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Neema Kudva, an expert on sustainable development in small cities and their regions in South Asia, comments on Cyclone Yaas threatening Eastern India, and its potential impact on critical infrastructure as well as the COVID-19 crisis in the country.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Architecture, Art and Planning

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