Environmental Policy & Law

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Adam Hasz

2017 Fellow
Adam Hasz is a Home Energy Rebates Implementation Advisor for the U.S. Department of Energy. He strives to advance a more equitable clean energy economy through research and planning. Prior to joining the Department of Energy, Adam earned a...
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Bruni Pizarro

2017 Fellow
Bruni Pizarro (she/ella) is the Director of Brand Strategy & Partner at For La Diáspora, a creative studio that connects brands to the Latine community through culturally-driven design and bilingual communications. Her family migrated from...
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Lauren Richter

2017 Fellow
Lauren Richter is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. In 2018 she was the recipient of a Leadership Grant from the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation to work at the Silent Spring Institute as a research fellow. She...
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Zineb Bouzoubaa

2017 Fellow
Zineb Bouzoubaa is a Senior Data Climate Specialist at Bloomberg, where she is part of the newly-formed GFANZ (Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero) team. In this role, she uses data to drive the global financial sector’s work to ensure...
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Is the Paris climate accord unfair to the U.S.?

Fellow Jason Grumet appeared on a PBS News Hour segment that dug into President Trump's reasons why he thought the Paris climate accord was a bad idea. Watch the segment on YouTube
June 6, 2017
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What's next for the March for Science

The March for Science has come and gone, but the team that sparked the movement still hasn't taken a breather. “I thought that after the march I would get back to my day job, but that’s not what happened,” said Fellow Ayana Johnson, a marine biologist and ocean conservation consultant who served as co-director of partnerships for the event.
June 5, 2017
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Genie Bey

2017 Fellow
Genie Bey is an environmental professional with over a decade of experience advancing climate adaptation, environmental justice, and community resilience across public and nonprofit sectors. She co-leads NOAA’s Climate Adaptation Partnerships (CAP) program, managing a national portfolio of interdisciplinary, community-engaged research focused on extreme heat, flooding, wildfire, and displacement. Genie holds an M.A. in Geography from California State University, Long Beach, and dual B.S. degrees in Urban Ecology and Environmental & Sustainability Studies from the University of Utah.
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U.S. chemical safety rules need to be updated

Fellow Mike Wilson, a former professional firefighter, paramedic and EMT, writes about the updated safety requirements for high-hazard industries-- and says the Republican decision to strike them down and delay updates for two more years is misguided.
May 27, 2017
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Wolf quoted in Scientific American article on March for Science

Like many warriors, Shaye Wolf is ready to march. She says Pres. Donald Trump’s administration is carrying out a “war on science” with proposed cuts in scientific research funding and appointments of climate change deniers to top positions. So Wolf, climate science director with the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute, will be joining this Saturday’s March for Science in Washington, D.C. “I see this as a very wide spread grassroots movement to resist Trump’s policies that put people in danger,” Wolf says.
April 25, 2017
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Why I’m taking to streets to march on behalf of science

Fellow Shaye Wolf wrote an op-ed for The Mercury News leading up to the March for Science on why she was marching. She wrote, "Science has intensely personal consequences for our health, our families, and our world, no matter what political party we belong to. We all need it — and now we have to fight for it."
April 25, 2017