In an article titled “Hand-washing is critical in the fight against coronavirus, but what if you don’t have safe water?” published by The Hill, authors ERG Alumni Peter Gleick and Heather Cooley highlight the critical need to increase clean water access in America in order to protect families from the Coronavirus and lack of drinkable water.

ERG professor Dan Kammen has recently joined a group of progressive policymakers to create green policy proposals that includes an economic stimulus package. The bill aims to help the nation recover from the coronavirus pandemic while simultaneously combating climate change.

ERG alumnus Christopher Jones was recently cited in both Scientific American and Global News articles.  In both articles, he discusses how Coronavirus is effecting global carbon emissions and the general environment.

ERG Professor Dan Kammen was recently cited on The New Republic for an article titled “Joe Biden’s Sketchy Climate Record”.

ERG PhD student Julia Szinai, ERG Alumnus Anand Gopal, and two other co-authors from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have recently published a collaborative research paper on ScienceDirect.

ERG professor Isha Ray with ERG Alumni Kripa Jagannathan and Andrew Jones recently published a new collaborative research paper titled “The making of a metric: Co-producing decision-relevant climate science”.

ERG PhD Student Veronica Jacome has recently been selected as a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow.

ERG Dan Kammen was recently quoted on KQED criticing the Trump Administration’s decision to appoint “former PG&E attorney to head the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office in San Francisco.”

ERG Alumnus Evan Mills’ research on the carbon emissions of gaming systems was recently cited on Grist. The article, titled “How the Xbox stands between Microsoft and its climate goals”, uses Mills’ research to display how gaming consoles like the Xbox have a significant impact on annual emissions.