Rick Geddes, director of the Cornell University Program in Infrastructure Policy, comments on the significance of forthcoming rules for nationwide transmission grid reform.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Damian Helbling, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, who researches water quality as it relates to human and ecosystem health, comments on the Environmental Protection Agency's newly announced standards to limit PFAS levels in drinking water.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Engineering

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As the International Seabed Authority meets in Jamaica this month, Maha Haji, professor of engineering, comments on a promising alternative to seabed mining.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Engineering

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Alistair Hayden, a professor of practice in public and ecosystem health and a former division chief at the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, comments on Canadian wildfire smoke reaching the U.S. and how to improve a national response to future smoke waves.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

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Cornell University experts are uniquely positioned to discuss what’s at stake for the climate, climate solutions and climate policy in November — with insights on the economy, infrastructure, jobs, public opinion, agriculture policy, energy technology and more.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Law, Government & Public Policy

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Cornell Lab of Ornithology filmmaker Gerrit Vyn has been documenting Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve’s birds and wildlife habitats for a documentary project, “America’s Arctic.” In the wake of a Biden administration announcement blocking oil and gas development in the region, images and video assets are available for media use.

Lab of Ornithology

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Cornell University climate scientist Flavio Lehner notes that the Smokehouse Creek fire, like the Eastland County fires of 2022, sits geographically near a dividing line between regions of the country that are forecast to experience either more or less precipitation in the future.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

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John Tobin, professor of practice at Cornell’s SC Johnson College of Business and a former Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainability at Credit Suisse, comments on climate negotiations between the U.S. and China.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Victoria Beard, a professor of city and regional planning and director of the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities, comments the growing threat of water shortages in cities around the world.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Architecture, Art and Planning

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Michael Hoffmann, professor emeritus at Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and lead author of Our Changing menu: Climate change and the foods we love and need, comments on the climate stresses facing cacao and chocolate production.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

International

Economics and Business

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