Sheila Olmstead

Professor, Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy

Sheila Olmstead studies the economic dimensions of environmental policies and served Presidents Obama and Trump as a senior economist for energy and the environment at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2016 to 2017. Her recent research explores the air pollution impacts of carbon capture and storage, a technology increasingly vying for federal support.

Rick Geddes

Professor, Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy

Rick Geddes is an expert on infrastructure policy, the state of U.S. infrastructure and the future of infrastructure development and maintenance. Geddes is director of the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy.

Talbot Andrews

Assistant Professor, College of Arts and Sciences

Talbot Andrews studies how people think about climate change and engage in climate politics, how the public holds elected officials accountable, and how political institutions can better prepare for, and respond, to climate disaster.

Lindsay Anderson, Jacob Mays and Eilyan Bitar are scholars working on energy systems and the future of the grid — including how to integrate renewables while the demands for electricity continue to rise.

Ariel Ortiz-Bobea and Benjamin Houlton study how climate change threatens agriculture and how ag policy can support farmers to mitigate against climate change.

Lara Skinner and Avalon Hoek Spaans lead research at Cornell’s Climate Jobs Institute, shedding light on barriers facing renewable energy workers and job trends in the renewable energy industries, and the impacts of federal and regional policies.

Greeshma Gadikota

Assistant Professor and Croll Sesquicentennial Fellow in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Greeshma Gadikota directs the Sustainable Energy and Resource Recovery Group at Cornell University’s College of Engineering and works to develop carbon removal technologies. Gadikota received $2 million from the Department of Energy to advance carbon capture and critical metal recovery from iron, steel and aluminum manufacturing, and is leading a $4 million project to decarbonize concrete. She can speak to the role of federal funding in the development of climate solutions.

Phillip Milner

Assistant Professor of Chemical & Chemical Biology

Phillip Milner is a professor of chemical and chemical biology, whose research focuses on the design of materials for gas storage and other applications. Milner can speak to carbon dioxide removal challenges and opportunities, as well as the role of government.