Linda Shi, an urban environmental planner, comments on flooding in California and what's needed to build more resiliency to future storms.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Architecture, Art and Planning

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Gennady Schvets, an expert on fusion and plasma physics, comments on the first ever fusion reaction to generate more energy than used to start the reaction.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Engineering

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Arthur Wheaton, a transportation industry and supply chain expert and director of labor studies at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, comments on the Biden administration's newly proposed rule for contractor emissions.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Law, Government & Public Policy

Industrial and Labor Relations

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Richard T. Clark, a political scientist who studies policymaking at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and how these organizations bargain with member states, comments on global lending reform as the U.S. climate envoy presses the World Bank.

Arts and Sciences

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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As oil and gas drillers ask the EPA to exempt small wells from forthcoming rules requiring producers to find and fix methane leaks, Robert Howarth, a professor of ecology and environmental biology and a faculty fellow at Cornell’s Atkinson Center for Sustainability, comments on the impacts of methane emissions.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Eilyan Bitar, professor of electrical and computing engineering, and Arthur Wheaton, transportation industries expert and director of labor studies, comment on newly announced grants from the Biden administration, awarded to school districts, to purchase electric school buses.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Law and Policy

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Catherine Kling, an environmental economist and an expert in water quality modeling, and Johannes Lehmann, a professor of soil and crop sciences, comment on sustainable agrowaste management practices and the threat of commercial fertilizer pollution as Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Florida.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Labor expert Ian Greer weighs in on the transition to electric vehicles and its impact on workers.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Mark Lynas, a visiting fellow at the Cornell Alliance for Science and author of “Nuclear 2.0: Why a Green Future Needs Nuclear Power,” comments on California's vote to keep open the state's last remaining nuclear plant.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Fengqi You, a professor of energy systems engineering and an expert on the life cycle of solar panels, comments on First Solar's announced expansion in the U.S., and Max Zhang, a sustainable energy systems expert, discusses what it can mean for solar panel reuse and recycling.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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