Environmental Policy & Law

Fellow

Zineb Bouzoubaa

2017 Fellow
Zineb Bouzoubaa is a Senior Data Climate Specialist at Bloomberg, where she is part of the newly-formed GFANZ (Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero) team. In this role, she uses data to drive the global financial sector’s work to ensure...
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Is the Paris climate accord unfair to the U.S.?

Fellow Jason Grumet appeared on a PBS News Hour segment that dug into President Trump's reasons why he thought the Paris climate accord was a bad idea. Watch the segment on YouTube
June 6, 2017
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What's next for the March for Science

The March for Science has come and gone, but the team that sparked the movement still hasn't taken a breather. “I thought that after the march I would get back to my day job, but that’s not what happened,” said Fellow Ayana Johnson, a marine biologist and ocean conservation consultant who served as co-director of partnerships for the event.
June 5, 2017
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Genie Bey

2017 Fellow
Genie Bey is an environmental professional with over a decade of experience advancing climate adaptation, environmental justice, and community resilience across public and nonprofit sectors. She co-leads NOAA’s Climate Adaptation Partnerships (CAP) program, managing a national portfolio of interdisciplinary, community-engaged research focused on extreme heat, flooding, wildfire, and displacement. Genie holds an M.A. in Geography from California State University, Long Beach, and dual B.S. degrees in Urban Ecology and Environmental & Sustainability Studies from the University of Utah.
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U.S. chemical safety rules need to be updated

Fellow Mike Wilson, a former professional firefighter, paramedic and EMT, writes about the updated safety requirements for high-hazard industries-- and says the Republican decision to strike them down and delay updates for two more years is misguided.
May 27, 2017
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Wolf quoted in Scientific American article on March for Science

Like many warriors, Shaye Wolf is ready to march. She says Pres. Donald Trump’s administration is carrying out a “war on science” with proposed cuts in scientific research funding and appointments of climate change deniers to top positions. So Wolf, climate science director with the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute, will be joining this Saturday’s March for Science in Washington, D.C. “I see this as a very wide spread grassroots movement to resist Trump’s policies that put people in danger,” Wolf says.
April 25, 2017
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Why I’m taking to streets to march on behalf of science

Fellow Shaye Wolf wrote an op-ed for The Mercury News leading up to the March for Science on why she was marching. She wrote, "Science has intensely personal consequences for our health, our families, and our world, no matter what political party we belong to. We all need it — and now we have to fight for it."
April 25, 2017
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Ayana Johnson: Co-leader of the 'March for Science'

Fellow Ayana Johnson became one of the driving forces behind the March for Science in Washington, D.C.—the first march she’s ever organized—because she thinks her profession is “at risk” under President Donald Trump.
April 25, 2017
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I Never Thought I'd be Marching for Science

Fellow Ayana Johnson, one of the co-leaders of the March for Science in April 2017, writes in Scientific American that the anti-science stance of the current administration—silencing scientists, removing data from federal websites, proposing drastic funding cuts—hits her core.
April 14, 2017
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Cohen quoted on apparent hypocrisy of Trump budget on infrastructure

As the dust settles on President Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to critical transportation funding, Bay Area leaders are calling the plan hypocritical in light of the administration’s frequently touted but as yet unseen $1 trillion infrastructure spending plan.
April 5, 2017