EVANSTON - Northwestern University experts on environmental law and policy, renewable energy and climate mitigation strategies are available for comment regarding dual climate studies published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. The studies concluded that by the end of the century, the global average surface temperature is likely to cross the 2 degrees Celsius threshold agreed to at the Paris climate conference.
Scientists say humankind must limit warming to that threshold to avert irreversible catastrophic climate consequences.
Expert contact information and expertise are listed below.
Nancy C. Loeb
Director, Environmental Advocacy Clinic
Assistant clinical professor of law
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
[email protected]
773-569-6050 (mobile)
Expertise: Energy and environmental law and policy; Superfund; the intersection between economics and environmental law; regulatory strategies; environmental justice
Recently quoted in:
- Pruitt says EPA will create ‘top-10’ list for Superfund cleanup (Washington Post, July 25)
- Scott Pruitt vows to speed the nation’s Superfund cleanups. Communities wonder how. (Washington Post, June 18)
- Even Trump should want the Superfund to be super (The Hill, March 24)
Michael R. Wasielewski
Executive director, Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN)
Director, Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center Clare Hamilton Hall Professor of Chemistry
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
[email protected]
847-467-1423 (office, preferred); 847-331-1478 (mobile) Expertise: Solar electricity and fuels; renewable energy; the importance of funding basic scientific research
David Dana
Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
[email protected]
224-307-0216 (mobile)
Expertise: Environmental law; property law; land use; professional responsibility
Recently quoted in:
- US exit from Paris climate accord makes discussing how and whether to engineer the planet even harder (The Conversation, June 7)
- Talking about geoengineering is a distraction (Axios, May 18)
- Trump and Big Auto hitting self-destruct button (Chicago Sun-Times, April 4)
Please note for on-camera interviews Dana is available only in Evanston.