Pollution
#47: Rod Richardson
Rod is the President of the Grace Richardson Fund. Rod joins Lucy Kessler to discuss the concept of “Clean Tax Cuts,” an idea that stems from Ronald Reagan’s supply-side tax cuts but is applied to the concept of climate pollution. Learn how this concept could accelerate profitable solutions, and drive down the cost of capital, while increasing supply and demand for clean energy.
#44: Liz Barratt-Brown
Liz Barratt-Brown, Senior Advisor to NRDC & Executive Committee member of the Yale Law School, and Advisory Board Member of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy joins Catherine Martini for a conversation about Barratt-Brown’s career working on the Toxic Release Inventory, the Keystone XL Pipeline, international climate negotiations, and organic olive oil farming in Mallorca, Spain (www.pedruxella.com).
#40: Jennifer McIvor
Jennifer McIvor, Vice President of Environmental at MidAmerican Energy speaks with Becky Gallagher of the Yale School of Forestry and the Yale School of Management about the various environmental issues that energy companies face. While climate change dominates the conversation, companies like MidAmerican are also working to clean up water, protect endangered species, and otherwise coordinate energy production with environmental protection.
#28: Mathias Risse
In this podcast Mathias Risse, professor of philosophy and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, discusses his recent paper, “The Human Right to Water and Common Ownership of the Earth” which posits that humanity’s shared possession of our planet provides a philosophical foundation for a right to water and sanitation.
EPI Insights: Air Quality
Air pollution is the most pressing environmental threat to global public health according to the 2018 Environmental Performance Index (EPI). Researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities in conjunction with the World Economic Forum issue the report every two years.
Q&A with EPI Investigator, Zach Wendling
The Environmental Performance Index (EPI), was released January 22nd in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. YCELP Research Assistant, Lucy Kessler, sat down with the Zach Wendling, the EPI Principal Investigator, to discuss the 20th anniversary of the Index and his key takeaways from the report.
At COP22, Finding Optimism in the Face of Political Challenges
By Emily Wier.
EPA’s Trend toward Environmental Justice
By Alessandra Wingerter, Joint J.D./M.E.M. (2017) at Vermont Law School and Yale F&ES
A Look at the Complexity of Fracking in North Dakota
By Eugene Rusyn, YLS ’17