Air Quality

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Christina Fuller: Looking to trees to help ease highway air pollution

Plenty of Atlantans spend time on highways, speeding or inching or swerving along. But many people spend a lot of time near the highways, too: at their homes, schools or workplaces. And that’s not great for their health. So Fellow Christina Fuller, a Georgia State University public health professor, is studying how effectively trees can help filter out some of that pollution.
November 7, 2019
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Lourdes Vera

2019 Fellow
Lourdes Vera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Department of Environment and Sustainability at UB. As an environmental sociologist and civic scientist, she works with communities living near oil and gas...
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Kelly McClure

2019 Fellow
Kelly McClure (she/her/hers) is an incoming Heyman Public Interest Fellow at the White House, where she will serve as a Special Assistant within the Executive Office of the President. In May of 2021, Kelly will receive her Juris Doctor...
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Zully Juarez

2019 Fellow
Zully Juarez provides research and analysis of environmental justice policies to Just Solutions Collective. With the direction and input of BIPOC frontline policy practitioners, she works to identify, research, review, and analyze existing...
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Isa Gaillard

2019 Fellow
Isa is a Program Manager at the Greenlining Institute, where he is developing a community of practice that is focused on scaling transportation electrification and equitable mobility policy across the country. He recently graduated with a...
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Xantha Bruso: Developing autonomous vehicle policy strategies to advance safety while enabling innovation

As the policy manager for autonomous vehicle policy at AAA Northern California, Nevada and Utah, Fellow Xantha Bruso is developing and implementing AAA’s AV policy strategy to advance AV safety while enabling innovation. She also supports strategic initiatives to accelerate AV deployment and foster mobility solutions.
May 21, 2019
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Holmes Hummel: Accelerating private capital utility investments in inclusive clean energy solutions

Fellow Holmes Hummel is the Founding Director of Clean Energy Works, a nonprofit organization that seeks to accelerate private capital utility investments in inclusive clean energy solutions.
May 21, 2019
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Monitoring air quality and mapping border environmental justice issues

The goals of the project between Environmental Health Coalition (EHC) and Switzer Fellow Dr.
December 12, 2018
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Matsuoka publishes report chapter on importance of partnerships in cleaning up freight transportation pollution

Fellow Martha Matsuoka co-authored the chapter "Working Together to Clean Up Freight Transportation" in the new report from the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, Strategies for Health Justice: Lessons from the Field.
December 10, 2018
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Moch research on China air pollution appears in New York Times, CNN, others

Scientists have found a new culprit contributing to China’s notorious wintertime smog, and controlling it could help sustain the significant improvements in air quality that Beijing and other northeastern cities experienced last winter, according to research published on Thursday. Scientists from Harvard and two Chinese universities reported that emissions of formaldehyde — principally from vehicles and chemical and oil refineries — played a larger role than previously understood in producing the thick, toxic pollution that chokes much of the country each winter.
October 29, 2018