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EPA Clean Power Plan Community

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website provides resources to help inform communities about the final Clean Power Plan and the proposed Federal Plan Requirements for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Electric Utility Generating Units Constructed on or Before January 8, 2014; Model Trading Rules (this rulemaking will be henceforth referred to as the proposed federal plan). Additionally, this website provides resources that the EPA is making available to help communities engage with their states as they implement their plans and to assist communities in engaging with the EPA throughout the comment period for the proposed federal plan.

Economic Risks of Climate Change: An American Prospectus

Trevor Houser (Rhodium Group), Solomon Hsiang (Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley), Robert Kopp (REI Associate Director) , and Kate Larsen's (Rhodium Group) propectus "Economic Risks of Climate Change: An American Prospectus"Economic Risks of Climate Change: An American Prospectus" is now available from Columbia University Press. This prospectus is based on a critically acclaimed independent assessment of the economic risks posed by climate change commissioned by the Risky Business Project.  This book is an essential tool for helping businesses and governments prepare for the future.

Professor Mazurek - WHYY interview on new Federal emmisions reductions

Professor Monica Mazuek, Associate Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering and REI member, was interviewed by WHYY in the following article the "New Climate Change Rules for Power Plants Come with Perks for Public Health"

Clara Immerwahr Award - Applications due Nov. 1, 2015

The Clara Immerwahr Award is conferred annually to a young female scientist at an early stage of her career (postdoctoral fellow, junior researcher) for outstanding results in Catalysis Research.

National Academy of Sciences Study on Geoengineering and Climate

REI Director, Paul G. Falkowski, participated as a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) committee members on the recent report on "Climate Intervention:Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth (2015)".  Learn more about the findings...

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  1. The Green Hour: Low-Emission Vehicles
  2. Bob Kopp awarded INQUA’s Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal
  3. Robert Kopp named Chancellor's Scholar for Rutgers New Brunswick
  4. The Deadly Combination of Heat and Humidity