Energy Resources & Access

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Diezmartínez reviews justice potential of Community Choice Aggregation energy model

In her recent paper, Claudia Diezmartínez evaluates the justice impacts of Community Choice Aggregation (CCA). CCA is “is an alternative energy supply model that enables municipalities to procure electricity on behalf of their residents.”...
August 23, 2023
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Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports on the Race to Save the Earth

In his panoramic new book, John J. Berger, an acclaimed science and environmental writer, shows how we can defeat the fossil fuel industry; win at climate diplomacy; and implement the policies, programs and technologies that can solve a...
August 23, 2023
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Patrick Houston

2023 Fellow
Patrick is an organizer and activist whose studies are focused on energy grid and building decarbonization, and community wealth building in low-income and working communities of color.
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Rafeed Hussain

2023 Fellow
Rafeed's research focuses on offshore wind development perceptions and impacts on coastal communities. Although Rafeed has a brain trained in natural and social sciences, his heart lies in photography and science communication.
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DeNarae Stewart

2023 Fellow
DeNarae investigates factors influencing the consumption of hair care products in Black communities and strives to facilitate the equitable transfer of information and resources needed to create and promote viable, sustainable consumption efforts in underrepresented communities.
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Dyanna Jaye

2023 Fellow
Dyanna is studying policies to guide long-haul economic transition pathways to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis. Before graduate school, Dyanna organized with grassroots movements to design and win climate policy for over a decade.
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Ben Clark

2023 Fellow
An aspiring movement lawyer, Ben is focused on advancing environmental justice, alleviating poverty, and defending workers’ rights in communities burdened by the fossil fuel industry.
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Fraga op-ed: We can’t solve the climate crisis by causing extinction

Tiehm’s buckwheat, the rare wildflower at the center of controversy for supposedly “standing in the way” of a lithium mine, is teetering on the edge of extinction. Dubious conservation programs, touted loudly by a mining company and its boosters, not only will fail to prevent the plant’s extinction in its natural range, but they do damage to the reputation and practice of rare plant conservation.
June 21, 2023
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Bruso takes role as Senior Director of Transportation Electrification at E3

Xantha Bruso is now Senior Director of Transportation Electrification at Energy and Environmental Economics Inc (E3), where she is quantifying the value of Vehicle Grid Integration, projecting local adoption of EVs for distribution grid and...
June 21, 2023
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Mulvaney interviewed on social and ecological impacts of desert solar farms

Dustin Mulvaney was featured in a May 2023 KSQD Sustainability Now! episode on the social and ecological impacts of large solar farms in the desert and whether they can contribute to a “just energy transition”. Listen here
June 21, 2023