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Ida’s aftermath reveals resiliency voids on Gulf Coast

August 30, 2021

Linda Shi, an urban environmental planner who studies how cities adapt to climate change, comments on the aftermath of Hurricane Ida.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Architecture, Art and Planning

EPA to ease methane regs for industry, ‘single largest culprit’ of emissions spike

August 29, 2019

Robert Howarth, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University and a faculty fellow at Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, comments on the Trump administration's plan to ease regulations for methane emissions.

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Energy, Environment & Sustainability

New U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule undermines mission to protect birds

July 16, 2020

Amanda Rodewald, professor and senior director of conservation science with Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology, comments on a new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule the excludes "incidental take" from Migratory Bird Treaty Act protections.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Lab of Ornithology
Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

Building emission caps to radically change NYC energy footprint

April 18, 2019

Timur Dogan, an architect, building scientist, and a faculty fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University, comments on New York City legislation that would set greenhouse gas emission caps for buildings.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Architecture, Art and Planning

Bloomberg’s campaign to raise profile of climate innovations

November 25, 2019

Natalie Mahowald says Mayor Bloomberg is on the right track for mitigating and adapting to climate change and will raise the profile of the topic now that he has entered the presidential race.

Law and Policy
Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

Federal drilling ruling shows ‘invisible’ threat of climate change matters most

March 20, 2019

Anindita Banerjee is an associate professor of comparative literature at Cornell University and a faculty fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. She says the ruling highlights the importance of invisible threats such as climate change, and harkens back to the 1960s debate over pesticides.

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Sustainability pioneers: Renewable energy, new tech and social sciences needed to tackle climate change

October 8, 2018

Natalie Mahowald, a lead author of a U.N. report on global warming and faculty director of the environment at Cornell University’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Jonathon Schuldt, assistant professor of communication at Cornell University and a faculty fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, and Karen Pinkus, professor of Italian and comparative literature at Cornell University and faculty fellow in the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, comment on what is needed to mitigate global warming.

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Google worker climate demands signal growing activism in tech

November 5, 2019

Glen Dowell, a corporate sustainability researcher and professor of management and organizations at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, comments on recent environmental activism among tech workers.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Economics and Business
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

WOTUS rollback threatens half of US wetlands, fifth of streams

September 13, 2019

Amanda Rodewald and Brian Rahm comment on the rollback of the WOTUS rule that expanded protection for U.S. waterways.

Law and Policy
Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Methane impact pioneer: Now is not the time to unleash this growing climate threat

September 11, 2018

Robert Howarth, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University and a faculty fellow at Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future comments on the Trump administration's plans to make it easier for energy companies to release methane into the atmosphere.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

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