Greeshma Gadikota, director of the Sustainable Energy and Resource Recovery Group at Cornell University’s College of Engineering and Max Zhang, a sustainable energy systems expert who studies the effects of pollutants on air quality, comment on the EPA's new limits on soot and fine particle emissions.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Stephen Yale-Loehr and Ian Kysel, professor of law, comment on the Biden administration's decision to end Title 42, a controversial policy barring migrants from entering the U.S. during the pandemic. 

Law and Policy

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President Biden plans to join striking autoworkers today, marking the first time a sitting president has visited a picket line. This is one day before former President Donald Trump also goes to Detroit to hold his own event— showing how political the UAW strike has become. Ileen DeVault, professor of labor history and Kate Bronfenbrenner, expert on union and employer organizing and bargaining strategies, weigh in on the visits.

Industrial and Labor Relations

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Inflation has prices on the rise for holiday travel this year. Travel and hospitality experts, Christopher Anderson and Chekitan Dev are available for interviews on what to expect.

Economics and Business

School of Hotel Administration

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

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On Monday, a federal judge in Florida struck down the mask mandate requirement on airplanes and other forms of public transportation.Christopher Anderson says mandate inconsistencies can cause headaches for airlines and their employees.

School of Hotel Administration

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

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Stephen Yale-Loehr says the TPS redesignation for Venezuelans is a good first step to address the recent surge in migrant arrivals, but more needs to be done. Shannon Gleeson says the Venezuela migrant population is not unique, and TPS benefits should be reconsidered for the nearly 8-million undocumented workers in the U.S.

Law and Policy

Law, Government & Public Policy

Law School

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JetBlue has offered to buy Sprint Airlines challenging Spirit’s plan to merge with Frontier. Christopher Anderson says the Frontier-Spirit deal would be positive for both consumers and shareholders while the JetBlue-Spirit acquisition doesn’t offer the same operational synergies.

School of Hotel Administration

Economics and Business

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Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law at Cornell Law School, says while the changes proposed by the Biden administration would indicate progress, the only lasting way to fix the immigration system is through Congress.

Law and Policy

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Paul Lushenko is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and a senior policy fellow at Cornell University’s Tech Policy Lab, he says the revelation that the Chinese balloon was in fact used for spying suggests several considerations for the evolving Sino-U.S. relationship. 

International

Foreign Policy

Law, Government & Public Policy

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The U.S. Supreme Court issued two important immigration decisions today in United States v. Hansen and United States v. Texas, but more litigation is likely says Cornell Law professor Stephen Yale-Loehr. 

Law and Policy

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