Environmental Policy & Law

Fellow

Teniope Adewumi-Gunn

2018 Fellow
Teniope Adewumi-Gunn is currently a Science Fellow at NRDC focusing on the intersection of climate change and worker health. Her research looks for solutions to address the climate impacts faced by workers, with a focus on underserved...
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Maria Martinez

2018 Fellow
Maria works to advance policies that bring innovative clean energy solutions to market and help the world achieve net-zero economy-wide emissions by 2050 at Breakthrough Energy. Prior to joining Gates Ventures and Breakthrough Energy, Maria...
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Philip Womble

2018 Fellow
Philip Womble is an attorney and a hydrologist specializing in water policy and water markets. He is a legal/postdoctoral fellow with the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. Philip received his Ph.D. in Environment...
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Matthew Williamson

2018 Fellow
Matt is a conservation scientist interested in understanding how the interactions between people, their environment, and the institutions that govern them inspire (or inhibit) conservation action and how that impacts their effectiveness.
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Candice Youngblood

2018 Fellow
Candice Youngblood is a passionate environmental justice lawyer and advocate. An asthmatic, she grew up in Los Angeles County living beside major freeways. Candice became motivated to protect the right to breathe clean air after realizing...
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Miyuki Hino

2018 Fellow
Miyuki Hino is a Ph.D. candidate in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford University. She studies strategies for managing flood risk in a changing climate, ranging from strategic relocation programs...
Fellow Story

Daniel Morris: Fiscal impacts of major disasters on government planning

How do we ensure funds are available on a national or even international scale when climate disasters strike? Daniel Morris, who is currently Advisor to the U.S. Executive Director at the World Bank, has spent recent years thinking about how to make communities and countries more financially resilient in the face of catastrophic disasters in the future.
May 29, 2018
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David Gonzalez: Translating research Into public policy

Fellow David Gonzalez reports on his experiences at the Switzer Spring Retreat Policy Communications Training and the UC Grad Research Advocacy Day.
April 18, 2018
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Henry Herndon: Local decisions will help shape state's energy future

Energy issues create challenges and opportunities every year for local decision makers, writes Henry Herndon about New Hampshire. Challenges are not only in cost, but also in the vagaries of the State House. Opportunities lie in the marketplace for cost-saving technologies that are competing with traditional monopolistic energy services. Favorable state policies can help to cultivate these market-based alternatives, provided those policies remain in place.
March 15, 2018
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Moore finds even Obama administration may have set social cost of carbon too low

As the Trump administration slashes federal estimates of the future costs of climate change, new research suggests that even the much higher cost calculated by the Obama administration might be too low.
March 14, 2018