Energy Resources & Access

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Wazer organizes 100-mile bike ride to end fossil fuels

On May 30 and 31, fourteen Sierra Club Connecticut and Sunrise New Haven members and supporters completed the Ride to End Fossil Fuels, a 100 mile bike ride across the state in protest of methane gas expansion projects.
September 3, 2026
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Grant Gutierrez authors report on community opposition to AI data centers

This report asks: “What community concerns surround AI data center projects that have been canceled, stalled, or withdrawn?” and “What do the demographic and environmental profiles of those communities tell us about the broader conditions under which AI data center development is meeting resistance?”
July 15, 2026
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Paul publishes data center negotiation simulation

Sanjana Paul has released a new simulation that allows participants to engage in multi-party negotiations around a proposed data-center. Using eight different roles, participants explore the implications of energy, water, community benefits...
June 25, 2026
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Artiga-Purcell co-edits special issue on current politics of natural resource extraction

The goal of the special issue is to broaden our understanding of extractivism and its role in our societies by a systematic application and testing of a Critical Cultural Political Economy framework to the extractive sector in general, and to specific extractive projects in particular.
June 25, 2026
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UC Berkeley appoints Morello-Frosch as inaugural associate provost for energy, climate, and environment

“The public health expert and Berkeley professor will unite scholars across campus to address crucial environmental challenges.”
June 25, 2026
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Justin Saint-Loubert-Bie

2026 Fellow
Justin Saint-Loubert-Bie is third year student at Yale Law School, where he is a student director of the Environmental Justice Law and Advocacy Clinic, and was a co-president of the Yale Environmental Law Association and co-chair for the 2026 New Directions in Environmental Law Conference. Justin is interested in working at the intersection of environmental and Tribal issues, and particularly on questions that touch on land use and the clean energy transition.
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Thomas King

2026 Fellow
Thomas Hyo-min King is an environmental designer and urbanist from rural Nova Scotia, Canada. His work focuses on strategies for delivering building rehabilitations and energy infrastructure that improve extant living conditions while reinforcing energetic and economic democracy among disinvested building populations.
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Maria Martinez: America’s power shortage is a market failure

“Over the past few months, the conversation about electricity prices has increasingly focused on slowing load growth, capping rates, or debating who should pay for the power that new data centers require. That debate misses the larger issue...
April 23, 2026
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Moch serves as Senior Advisor for Climate and Energy Policy for North Carolina Governor Stein

Jonathan is “delighted to be returning to North Carolina and honored to serve under the bold leadership of Governor Stein as we build a stronger, safer, cleaner, and more resilient state.”
January 29, 2026
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Vera on volunteer effort to save climate data removed by Trump administration

Lourdes Vera spoke to NPR about her work volunteering to preserve climate-related data and tools from agency websites before they are stripped by the Trump administration.
June 30, 2025