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UCLA professor wins British Society for Literature and Science’s annual book prize
IoES and Department of English Professor Ursula Heise has been awarded this year’s British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) prize for best book in the field of literature and science published…
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Bloomberg BNA: California’s cap-and-trade auctions are lawful
“I think the court really got it right,” Cara Horowitz, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, told Bloomberg BNA. “It took a creative analytical approach to…
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NPR: U.S.-Chinese relationships to change as U.S. turns inward
“I think one of the fears about what’s going on in the US with Trump stepping back from climate action is that some people think Chinese leaders may not want…
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UCLA announces new Ph.D. program in environment and sustainability
Starting this fall, the IoES will offer a new graduate program to help students study and address important environmental challenges that require skills in multiple disciplines. Environment and sustainability problems…
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Salon: Removal of energy ‘burdens’ could have huge impacts
“If you ask in the most expansive way what federal actions affect fossil fuels production, DOE’s energy support — research and development support for renewable energy — could be construed…
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Climate Feedback: Analysis of “One of the most troubling ideas about climate change just found new evidence in its favor”
Daniel Swain, Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability: Overall, this piece accurately describes the findings of a new research paper by Mann et al on linkages between rapid…
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Mercury News: Lions, big snakes and leopards in Bay Area cities? Oh my!
“In many ways it’s surprising how adaptable these species have been. Mountain lions, for instance, willingly limit themselves to 25 square miles instead of their staggeringly large range of around…
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New York Times: China poised to take lead on climate after Trump’s move
“Trump’s rejection of regulatory action on climate change creates a vacuum in global climate leadership that China can now seize,” said Alex L. Wang, a law professor and China environmental…
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KPCC-FM’s “Take Two”: Trump’s climate policy order challenges California’s clean-air efforts
UCLA environmental lawyer Cara Horowitz said, “States like California and environmental organizations will take EPA to court and say, “Look, EPA can’t undo this rule just based on a political…
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NPR’s “Morning Edition”: Climate engineering scientists shun president
“To the extent you’re in a political setting where misinformation about climate change is being spread, efforts to cut emissions are being undermined or threatened,” [UCLA’s Ted] Parson told NPR,…
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Agence France-Presse: State prepares for war with Trump on environment
Cara Horowitz, co-executive director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA, said that while it is impossible to predict the outcome of a showdown between…
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The Atlantic: How U.S. protects environment, from Nixon to Trump
“The EPA gets challenged a ton, but they win most of the time,” Ann Carlson, a professor of environmental law at UCLA. “And one of the reasons they win, even…
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New York Times: President signs executive order unwinding climate policies
But experts say that without action from the United States, China’s efforts to curb emissions may slow. “It may empower business and political interests within China that still opposed climate…
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Losing childhood places in an age of regulatory rollback
by Kyla Wilson I was raised on the sandstone hills above San Elijo Lagoon, just a couple miles south of Batiquitos Lagoon. As a child, these inlets where river runoff…
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Science Daily: When air pollution is bad, know how to protect yourself
Yifang Zhu, professor of environmental health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, says there are steps we can take to protect ourselves and our families from air…
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Discover Magazine: The secret in your sushi
A recent study performed by the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA sampled from 26 sushi restaurants in Los Angeles from 2012-2015. Led by Demian A, Willette and…
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KPCC-FM: State to fight methane leaks from pipes, underground storage sites
“Here in L.A. we have a high concentration of oil drilling in communities like Wilmington,” said UCLA Law’s Sean Hecht. “And in those situations, it affects people’s health directly,” because…
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Christian Science Monitor: In break with Trump administration, California commits to cleaner cars
Ann Carlson, a professor of environmental law at UCLA, told the Atlantic’s Meyer that “I thought that [Scott] Pruitt’s testimony [at his hearing for the top EPA post] was sufficiently…
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Los Angeles Times: California commits to cleaner cars
Ann Carlson, an environmental law professor at UCLA, said negotiations still could resolve disagreements and preserve a single national standard. And if they don’t? “The other possibility is it’s full-out…
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Washington Post: Trump wants to cut programs that help buildings save energy. This new study says they work.
Thanks to a partnership program at UCLA, Magali Delmas and co-author Omar Isaac Asensio were able to access energy data from buildings throughout Los Angeles and use it to evaluate the…
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New York Times: Green necklace’ of trees to help Beijing fight smog
Alex L. Wang, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies Chinese environmental regulations, said although this case was apparently a first for Beijing, regulators in…
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Marketplace: Water, water everywhere in California, but no way to hold onto it
Most of the great sites have been taken, and so the sites that still exist — they might be small, they might be oddly shaped to represent certain engineering designs…
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The Atlantic: The paradox of defunding the EPA
“It’s really staff intensive to rescind a rule and then replace it,” says Ann Carlson, a professor of environmental law at the University of California Los Angeles. “To the degree…
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KPCC-FM: All California children would get lead screening under bill
John Froines, a professor emeritus at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, said screening all children is a good step toward addressing lead contamination, but scientists still disagree on…
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KCRW-FM’s “Press Play”: Trump budget could deal a painful blow to California
“A lot of our regulation of air and water quality and greenhouse gases that can cause at climate change is done at the state level by state agencies, but a…