Environmental & Public Health

Heather Coleman co-authored an op-ed in the Boston Globe emphasizing how corporations pair marketing with lobbying to remain unregulated.

Kimberley Miner spoke with CNN about her research on potential hazards of thawing permafrost, from ancient organisms to hazardous waste.

Lara Cushing is the lead author of a December 2022 study finding that historical red-lining is associated with fossil fuel power plant siting and present-day inequalities in air pollutant emissions. Read the open-access article in Nature Energy and a summary in Axios.

Deniss Martinez and Karly Hampshire were honored as recipients of the 13th annual University of California President’s Award for Outstanding Student Leadership.

"Does everybody else here feel sick too?" Dr. Jessica Trowbridge’s curiosity about the impact of exposure to environmental chemicals on health came out of her experience living binationally and experiencing the environmental burdens of pollution in her communities in central Mexico and Richmond, California.

The study found 132 wind-related incidents from 2000-2021 that resulted in at least 479 injuries and 28 deaths, many occurring at wind speeds not considered hazardous.