The Biden administration is forging ahead with plans to lease federal waters — stretching nearly the entire coastline — to wind power developers. Cornell University researchers are engaged in multiple aspects of this story.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Max Zhang, a sustainable energy systems expert, comments on France's decision to invest €1bn in nuclear power by 2030.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Engineering

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Linda Shi, an urban environmental planner and assistant professor in city and regional planning, comments on plans from the Biden administration to substantially raise flood insurance rates for many coastal homeowners beginning on Oct. 1 — an effort to better reflect the cost of growing flood risks.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Architecture, Art and Planning

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Methane emissions researchers John Albertson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Robert Howarth, a professor of ecology and environmental biology, comment on the development of a new Global Methane Pledge designed to reduce global methane emissions by at least 30% by 2030.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Physical Sciences & Engineering

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Brian Rahm, director of the New York State Water Resources Institute, comments on the devastating floods in the Northeast caused by Hurricane Ida.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

New York City

New York State

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Brian Rahm, director of the New York State Water Resources Institute and senior research associate with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, comments on the scrapping of a Trump administration rule that limited federal protections for streams, marshes and wetlands.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Agriculture and Life Sciences

Food & Agriculture

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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

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Sara Bronin, an architect and attorney who studies how law and policy can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed, and connected places, comments on newly released 2020 census data.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Robert Howarth an expert on the greenhouse gas footprint of methane, comments on a new climate change report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Geoff Abers, chair of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell University, comments on an 8.2-magnitude earthquake that struck off the southern coast of Alaska.

Engineering

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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