Tip Sheets

Cornell faculty members and experts weigh in on current events.

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Offshore drilling ban would protect vulnerable marine, bird species

September 10, 2019

Aaron Rice of Cornell University's Bioacoustics Research Program and John Fitzpatrick of the Lab of Ornithology say that a series of bills proposing to ban oil and gas drilling off the U.S. coastline would protect vulnerable and endangered wildlife.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Law and Policy
Lab of Ornithology

Trump administration chooses oil exploration at expense of sage grouse

December 6, 2018

John Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and an expert on conservation biology is available for interviews to discuss federal government plans to drastically reduce habitat protections in Western states for the sage grouse.

Lab of Ornithology
Energy, Environment & Sustainability