IoES in the News
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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…
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Christian Science Monitor: Unlikely China ally in pollution fight: public activists
Alex Wang, an assistant professor at the UCLA School of Law who specializes in Chinese environmental law, writes in a soon-to-be published study that the overlapping interests of citizens and…
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Public Radio International: Trump’s plan for EPA is death by ‘a thousand cuts’
The president can’t do away with the EPA altogether because “there are a bunch of statutes on the books that require EPA to do things: to issue regulations, to enforce…
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Salon: Polluters could ‘more easily’ commit crimes under cuts
“The cuts are so deep it’s hard to imagine we won’t see real effects in air and water quality,” said Ann Carlson, an environmental law professor at UCLA law. “Individual…
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Access Hollywood: Courtney Cox celebrates innovation
Courteney Cox, Nigel Lythgoe, James Marsden and more attended the John Salley hosted Innovators for a Healthy Planet gala. (Coverage starts at 1:51)
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Learning to listen: bridging gaps on a national level
by Anonymous Student We can all picture the scenario: someone expresses a view or opinion that you know to be wrong. But that’s okay! You know the facts are on…
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Why we must understand the facts of climate change
by Anonymous Student America is meant to be great again. In our nation, there is a need to care for our brothers and sisters, family and friends, to the authorities…
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The future of Kentucky depends on Secretary Perry’s support for renewable energy
by Anonymous Student Donald Trump’s Secretary of Energy is a man who famously forgot the Department of lEnergy’s name when he called for the department’s disbandment at a 2012 primary…
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Esquire: It’s the golden age of climate denial
“…Plants already have CO2, and scientists have developed lots of evidence that rapid accumulation of CO2 in both the atmosphere and ocean will generate a large number of negative effects…
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Christian Science Monitor: Unlikely China ally in pollution fight: public activists
Alex Wang, an assistant professor at the UCLA School of Law who specializes in Chinese environmental law, writes in a soon-to-be published study that the overlapping interests of citizens and…
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Phys.org: Climate change puts state’s snowpack in jeopardy in future droughts
“The cryosphere — frozen parts of the planet — has shown the earliest and largest signs of change,” said UCLA climate scientist Alex Hall, who along with study co-author Neil…
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San Francisco Chronicle: California to fight if EPA eases emissions rule
“If the administration loses on this, California’s power is then absolutely clear, and it can use that power to issue standards that are stronger, and it can get other states…
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San Francisco Chronicle: After near-record storms, signs of El Niño rise
“By any formal metric, this winter was unanticipated,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA. “The deeper question of why it’s happening is challenging. I don’t think we have…
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Popular Science: How we know there’s climate change, and humans to blame
“Past observations offer a context in which to view today’s climate — one in which Earth’s atmosphere is filled with the largest concentration of carbon dioxide in human history,” says…
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KPCC-FM’s Air Talk: Rollback of fuel economy rules could pit state, EPA
When EPA is asked to grant a waiver for California, it is required by law to follow what the Clean Air Act sets forth are the criteria for deciding that…
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Los Angeles Times: When it rains, billions of gallons of ‘free liquid gold’ lost
“We haven’t made the progress we should have,” said Mark Gold, associate vice chancellor for environment and sustainability at UCLA. “The money is not there. That’s been the big issue.”
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USA Today: Proposed NOAA budget cuts rattle scientists
Another expert notes that “virtually all we know about Earth’s atmosphere and oceans comes from sustained decades of government-funded scientific research,” according to a tweet from UCLA climate scientist Daniel…
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The Atlantic: The coming clean-air war between Trump, California
“California was the first state — the first, really, governmental entity — to enact tailpipe standards,” says Ann Carlson, a professor of environmental law at the University of California Los…
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KPCC-FM: Winter storms have another upside: cleaner air
“Clear, cold and calm would be probably the three words to describe the conditions most conducive to wintertime air pollution,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA.
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Los Angeles Times: Can California go its own way on federal environmental protections? These lawmakers want to try
“California will undoubtedly test the limits of what it’s possible for a state to do,” said Cara Horowitz, co-director of UCLA’s Environmental Law Clinic. The state, she said, “has made…