Sanjana is an engineer and environmental educator whose research focuses on process innovation and technical/policy boundaries of renewable energy systems and the electric grid.
Emily studies community wealth building in immigrant & BIPOC communities through economic and climate justice, and is working with the City of Boston on community-based participatory action research and worker cooperative ecosystems.
Ataya (Ute, Assiniboine, Lakota) examines the complex and contradictory relationships between oil and gas development, tribal sovereignty, and environmental justice on the northern Ute reservation.
Nicole explores the intersection of affordable housing and climate equity, including building energy retrofit strategies that can reduce energy burden, prevent displacement, and target climate investments to low-income communities of color.
Nia aims to create efficient, solar-powered catalysts to transform groundwater nitrate contaminants into useful products, spanning the gap between research and application.
Selena combines data analysis with a commitment to community health, ecological restoration, and environmental stewardship to develop innovative solutions for healthy forests in California.
“Including ports in this bonus tax credit will revitalize hard working communities that have long been engines of economic growth,” Grumet said. “The Administration’s action is yet another example of the economic opportunities created by the clean energy transition.”
“For a meaningful and productive conversation it is critical to see these issues—opposition to use of public lands versus opposition to large-scale solar—as distinct," Dustin Mulvaney writes in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
“We hope to highlight that any transition without critical attention to histories of power and powerlessness is likely to further harm those who stand to benefit the most from a truly just transition.”
Dustin Mulvaney testified before the House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Energy and Minerals on September 13 to advocate for a public policy framework that “brings together both the need for new responsible critical minerals...
